Papilionoideae indet.

Ton Rulkens from Mozambique · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/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.
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Papilionoideae indet. on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene16%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene80%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
1 formation
- Olduvai Formation · Vogel River Series Group3
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The named rock units Papilionoideae indet. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Papilionoideae indet. and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Papilionoideae indet. and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Cyperaceae4 sites
- Poaceae4 sites
- Alchornea3 sites
- Asteraceae3 sites
- Hagenia3 sites
- Juniperus3 sites
- Olea3 sites
- Podocarpus3 sites
- Pteridophyta3 sites
- Tribulus3 sites
- Urticaceae3 sites
- Acacia2 sites
- Amaranthaceae2 sites
- Artemisia2 sites
- Celtis2 sites
- Chenopodiaceae2 sites
- Commiphora2 sites
- Dodnaea sp.2 sites
- Ericaceae2 sites
- Euphorbia2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Hypericum2 sites
- Indet. indet.2 sites
- Justicia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Papilionoideae indet., 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- Chad: discovery of a vertebrate fauna close to the Mio-Pliocene boundary1
- Olduvai Gorge, Parts I-Iv: The Skulls, Endocasts, and Teeth of Homo Habilis1
- Desert paleoenvironmental data from cave speleothems with examples from the Chihuahuan1
- Olduvai Gorge; a case study in the interpretation of hominid paleoenvironments in East Africa1
- Geology of the Olduvai Gorge1
Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Papilionoideae indet.
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ton Rulkens from Mozambique
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Papilionoideae indet. was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.