Vantanea

Jean Baptiste Christian Fusée-Aublet (1720-1778) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- HumiriaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 64 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Vantanea on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Vantanea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vantanea and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Vantanea and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Anona peruviana2 sites
- Palmocarpon bravoi2 sites
- Ampelocissus bravoi1 site
- Anacardium1 site
- Anacardium peruvianum1 site
- Carpolithes1 site
- Cissus willardi1 site
- Cucurbites1 site
- Cupanoides peruvianus1 site
- Fagara piurana1 site
- Ficus sphericus1 site
- Hernandia1 site
- Jatropha tertiaria1 site
- Leguminosites1 site
- Leguminosites belensis1 site
- Lithospermites glabrum1 site
- Malvacarpus1 site
- Matayba1 site
- Palmocarpon belensis1 site
- Palmocarpon cocoides1 site
- Psychotria eogenica1 site
- Saccoglottis cipaconensis1 site
- Sapindoides peruvianus1 site
- Sapinoides peruvianus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Vantanea, 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
4 references- Fossil forests of Ocu, Panama1
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene1
- Fossil fruits in the Ancon Sandstone of Ecuador1
- Early Tertiary fruits and seeds from Belen, Peru1
Each of the 4 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 Vantanea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jean Baptiste Christian Fusée-Aublet (1720-1778)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vantanea 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHumiriaceae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aublet 1775