Rinorea
Rinorea is a genus of flowering plants in family Violaceae. It includes 221 species native to the subtropics and tropics.

Vojtěch Zavadil · 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
- ViolaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
4 occurrences of Rinorea on record. 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Rinorea 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.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Dicotyledoneae3 sites
- Salix heartensis3 sites
- Carya2 sites
- Cladrastis2 sites
- Dryophyllum2 sites
- Goweria cf. dilleri2 sites
- Liquidambar2 sites
- Monocotyledoneae2 sites
- Phytocrene2 sites
- Acalypha1 site
- Acer negundo1 site
- Allantodiopsis1 site
- Alnus operia1 site
- Artabotrys1 site
- Bursera1 site
- Calkinsia1 site
- Castanopsis1 site
- Celtis1 site
- cf. Asystasia sp.1 site
- cf. Cola sp.1 site
- cf. Desplatsia sp.1 site
- cf. Macginitea angustilobia1 site
- Chaetoptelea1 site
- Cissampelos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rinorea, 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
2 references- Paleoecological and Floristic Heterogeneity in the Plant-Fossil Record - An Analysis Based on the Eocene of Washington3
- A middle Miocene (12.2 my old) forest in the East African Rift Valley, Keny1
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 content1
Picture of Rinorea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Vojtěch Zavadil
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rinorea was found in Sketchfab.
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Rinorea”
- 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 itViolaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aublet