Shorea

Shorea is a genus of about 47 species of mainly rainforest trees in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The timber of trees of the genus is sold under the common names lauan, luan, lawaan, meranti, seraya, balau, bangkirai, and Philippine mahogany.

Shorea

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
DipterocarpoideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 24 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–7.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.6–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences33.9 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Shorea on record. 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

24 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

8 formations

Yaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°ESubansiri — 27.02°N, 92.64°ESubansiri — 27.07°N, 93.63°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EDafla — 26.94°N, 92.81°EKimin — 27.08°N, 93.65°EArung Khola — 27.72°N, 83.47°EBinai Khola — 27.56°N, 83.85°ETura — 25.50°N, 90.14°E

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The named rock units Shorea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

406 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Shorea, 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

8 references

Each of the 24 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 Shorea

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 Shorea 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

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 itDipterocarpoideae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roxburgh 1805