Nypa fruticans

Nypa fruticans, commonly known as the nipa palm or mangrove palm, is a species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the only palm considered adapted to the mangrove biome. The genus Nypa and the subfamily Nypoideae are monotypic taxa because this species is their only member.

Nypa fruticans

Qaalvin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NypaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 6 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Nypa fruticans on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

22 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ETikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°E

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The named rock units Nypa fruticans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nypa fruticans and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nypa fruticans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nypa fruticans, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

5 references

Each of the 22 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Nypa fruticans

Credit
Qaalvin
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNypa through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wumb 1781