Plumeria

Plumeria, commonly known as frangipani, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. Most species are deciduous shrubs or small trees. They are native to the Neotropical realm in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northwestern South America, but are often grown as ornamental plants in tropical regions, including Florida, Hawaii, South America south to northern Argentina, southern China, northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Senegal, and in parts of the Arabian Peninsula with irrigation.

A picture published with the record for Plumeria. What it shows has not been checked.

Varun Pabrai · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
frangipaniPBDB
Sits inside
PlantaePBDB

Time the record covers

At most 54 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57 Mya2 Mya

4 occurrences of Plumeria 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

4 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.

Plumeria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Plumeria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plumeria, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Plumeria

Credit
Varun Pabrai
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPlantae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753