Abutilon
Abutilon is a large genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. General common names include Indian mallow and velvetleaf; ornamental varieties may be known as room maple, parlor maple, or flowering maple. The genus name is an 18th-century Neo-Latin word that came from the Arabic ’abū-ṭīlūn, the name given by Avicenna to this or a similar genus.
Salicyna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- MalvaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Abutilon on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Abutilon and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Abutilon and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Accipiter1 site
- Acrostichum1 site
- Anacardiaceae1 site
- Annona1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Asteraceae1 site
- Bacopa1 site
- Bursera1 site
- Calliandra cf. haematomma1 site
- Caracara creightoni1 site
- Ceratopteris1 site
- cf. Pityrogramma sp.1 site
- Chelonoidis alburyorum1 site
- Crocodylus rhombifer1 site
- Cycadaceae1 site
- Dictyosporites1 site
- Eudocimus albus1 site
- Eugenia1 site
- Fabaceae1 site
- Fusiformisporites1 site
- Geocapromys1 site
- Geotrygon chrysia1 site
- Guaiacum sanctum1 site
- Hibiscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Abutilon, 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 Abutilon
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Salicyna
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Abutilon was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Abutilon”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMalvaceae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1754