Abarema xiaolongtanensis
Abarema is a neotropical genus in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Brazil and Venezuela. Most of the species can be found in the Amazon Basin and the Guyana Highlands. They have a deep-green fernlike foliage, with bipinnately compound leaves.

Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil · CC BY 2.0 · 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 6.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Abarema xiaolongtanensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Abarema xiaolongtanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Abarema xiaolongtanensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Abarema xiaolongtanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Acer1 site
- Acer macrophyllum1 site
- Alangium1 site
- Albizia1 site
- Albizia miokalkora1 site
- Berhamniphyllum miofloribundum1 site
- Byttneriophyllum tiliaefolium1 site
- Campylotropis1 site
- Cassia1 site
- Castanea1 site
- Castanopsis1 site
- Cinnamomum1 site
- Dalbergia1 site
- Desmodium1 site
- Desmos1 site
- Distylium1 site
- Dodonaea1 site
- Erythrophleum1 site
- Exbucklandia1 site
- Ficus1 site
- Gleditsia1 site
- Graminites1 site
- Indigofera1 site
- Jasminum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Abarema xiaolongtanensis, 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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Abarema xiaolongtanensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Abarema xiaolongtanensis 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Abarema”
- 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.