Acer pentapomicum
Acer pentapomicum, the Punjab maple, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Acer, native to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia and the western Himalaya. Preferring to grow 1,900 to 2,800 m above sea level, it is a member of the upper canopy in forested areas where it is found.

Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907 · No restrictions · 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
- AcerPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acer pentapomicum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Acer pentapomicum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Acer pentapomicum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Abies2 sites
- Aesculus2 sites
- Alnus2 sites
- Alnus nepalensis2 sites
- Apiaceae2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Betula utilis2 sites
- Botryococcus2 sites
- Carpinus2 sites
- Caryophyllaceae2 sites
- Cedrus2 sites
- Corylus2 sites
- Cyperaceae2 sites
- Ephedra2 sites
- Impatiens2 sites
- Juglans2 sites
- Lemna2 sites
- Picea2 sites
- Pinus wallichiana2 sites
- Poaceae2 sites
- Populus2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
- Ranunculaceae2 sites
- Salix2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acer pentapomicum, 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
2 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany1
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
Each 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 Acer pentapomicum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907
- Licence
- No restrictions
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Acer pentapomicum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAcer through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stewart 1874