Terminalia

Terminalia is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising nearly 300 species distributed in tropical regions of the world. The genus name derives from the Latin word terminus, referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots.

Terminalia

Franz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
CombretaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 35 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–716 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya716 ka

35 occurrences of Terminalia 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

35 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

14 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.85°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°ELower — 31.95°N, 76.27°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°ELower — 29.29°N, 79.55°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EMcBean — 33.45°N, 82.20°WAckerman — 34.66°N, 89.10°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WRockdale — 30.32°N, 97.30°WTikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ERajdanda — 23.42°N, 84.13°EMiddle — 26.87°N, 87.16°EHarudi — 23.65°N, 68.66°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°EMidway — 29.26°N, 98.49°W

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The named rock units Terminalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Terminalia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Terminalia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

866 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Terminalia, 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

17 references

Each of the 35 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. 5 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 Terminalia

Credit
Franz Xaver
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
paumarti
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCombretaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1767