Sapium

Sapium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across most of Latin America and the West Indies. Many Old World species were formerly included in the genus, but recent authors have redistributed all the Old World species into other genera.

Sapium

Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil · CC BY 2.0 · 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
milktreePBDB
Sits inside
EuphorbiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 39 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 33 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 39 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Sapium on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

39 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.

Found in

4 formations

Ngorora — 0.88°N, 35.80°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°ECulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°W

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The named rock units Sapium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sapium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sapium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

282 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sapium, 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

13 references

Each of the 39 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Sapium

Credit
Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil
Licence
CC BY 2.0
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

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Browne 1756