Staphylea

Staphylea, called bladdernuts, is a small genus of 10 or 11 species of flowering plants in the family Staphyleaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The highest species diversity is in China, where four species occur.

Staphylea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
bladdernutPBDB
Sits inside
StaphyleaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 47 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 47 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 47 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 47 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–7.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.7–4.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.1–506 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences100.5 Mya3.6 Mya108 Mya506 ka

47 occurrences of Staphylea 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

47 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

7 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WRaton — 37.33°N, 104.70°WRaton — 37.00°N, 104.48°WRaton — 37.13°N, 104.85°WAspen Shale — 42.09°N, 110.51°WFrontier — 41.60°N, 110.55°WFrontier — 41.79°N, 110.54°WProtection — 49.00°N, 124.00°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EOhoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°E

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The named rock units Staphylea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Staphylea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Staphylea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

287 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Staphylea, 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

16 references

Each of the 47 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. 4 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Staphylea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itStaphyleaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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