Sterculia

Sterculia is a genus of about 180 species of flowering plants in the hibiscus family Malvaceae, subfamily Sterculioideae. It was formerly placed in the now obsolete family Sterculiaceae. Members of the genus are colloquially known as tropical chestnuts. Sterculia may be monoecious or dioecious, and its flowers unisexual or bisexual.

Sterculia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
tropical chestnutPBDB
Sits inside
MalvaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 36 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 36 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 36 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 36 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 36 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences100.5 Mya2.58 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Sterculia 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

36 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

10 formations

Cheyenne Sandstone — 37.45°N, 99.08°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WFall River Sandstone — 44.57°N, 104.72°WFrontier — 42.83°N, 108.73°WDunvegan — 54.92°N, 121.42°WPatapsco — 37.38°N, 77.28°WHalf Three Point — 62.18°S, 58.97°W"Upper" — 24.08°N, 117.58°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°E

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The named rock units Sterculia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Sterculia, 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

22 references

Each of the 36 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. 10 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 content2

Picture of Sterculia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
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

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 itMalvaceae through timeThe world it lived on

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