Phoradendron
Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
- LoranthaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Phoradendron on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Phoradendron and its relatives
MioceneWhere Phoradendron and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Bignonia1 site
- Capparis1 site
- Cassia1 site
- Couroupita tertiaria n. sp.1 site
- Coussapoa1 site
- Elaphoglossum carrioni n. sp.1 site
- Eugenia1 site
- Filicites1 site
- Goniopteris1 site
- Inga1 site
- Leguminosites1 site
- Lonchocarpus1 site
- Magnoliopsida1 site
- Manihot tertiaria n. sp.1 site
- Melochia1 site
- Mespilodaphne1 site
- Momisia1 site
- Muscites1 site
- Pisonia1 site
- Plumeria1 site
- Poacites1 site
- Rhamnidium1 site
- Serjania tertiaria n. sp.1 site
- Styrax1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Phoradendron, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Phoradendron
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLoranthaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nuttall 1848