Santiria
Santiria is a genus of plants in the family Burseraceae.

Uncredited · 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
- BurseraceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Santiria on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 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
2 formations
- Yaw Formation6
- Tikak Parbat Formation · Barail Group1
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The named rock units Santiria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Santiria and its relatives
EoceneWhere Santiria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Deltoidospora6 sites
- Discoidites6 sites
- Longapertites6 sites
- Meliaceae6 sites
- Sapotaceoidaepollenites6 sites
- Saxosporis6 sites
- Verrucatosporites6 sites
- Calophyllumpollenites5 sites
- Laevigatosporites5 sites
- Rubiaceae5 sites
- Verrucatosporites usmensis5 sites
- Acrostichum4 sites
- Campnosperma4 sites
- Celtispollenites sp.4 sites
- Dicolpopollis4 sites
- Lanagiopollis4 sites
- Liliacidites4 sites
- Meyeripollis naharkotensis4 sites
- Palaquium4 sites
- Palmaepollenites kutchensis4 sites
- Pinuspollenites4 sites
- Proxapertites operculatus4 sites
- Selaginella4 sites
- Cicatricososporites eocenicus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Santiria, 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- A proto-monsoonal climate in the late Eocene of Southeast Asia: evidence from a sedimentary record in central Myanmar6
- Nypa megafossils from the Tertiary sediments of Northeast India1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Santiria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Santiria 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, “Santiria”
- 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 itBurseraceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blume