Trachelospermum tanaii
Trachelospermum, is a genus of evergreen woody vines in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1851. All species are native to southern and eastern Asia.

Contrado (Denis Conrado) , Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil. · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Trachelospermum tanaii on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Okinoyama Formation · Ube Group2
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The named rock units Trachelospermum tanaii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trachelospermum tanaii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Trachelospermum tanaii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Caesalpinea ubensis2 sites
- Cordia2 sites
- Metasequoia occidentalis2 sites
- Myrica2 sites
- Myrsine2 sites
- Parabenzoin cuneata2 sites
- Sabal2 sites
- Caesalpinea microphylla1 site
- Callicarpa1 site
- Cedrela1 site
- Cerba schafferi1 site
- Cerbera1 site
- Cinnamomum1 site
- Dendropanax ubensis1 site
- Diospyros1 site
- Distylium1 site
- Dodonaea1 site
- Ginkgo adiantoides1 site
- Gleditsia1 site
- Glyptostrobus europaeus1 site
- Ilex1 site
- Leguminosites1 site
- Ligustrum1 site
- Maackia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Trachelospermum tanaii, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Trachelospermum tanaii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Contrado (Denis Conrado) , Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil.
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trachelospermum tanaii 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 itFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.