Acer stewarti
Acer stewarti is an extinct maple species in the family Sapindaceae described from a series of fossil leaves and samaras. The species is solely known from the Early Eocene sediments exposed in south central British Columbia, Canada adjacent to northeast Washington state, United States. It is one of only two species belonging to the extinct section Stewarta.
No picture of Acer stewarti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acer stewarti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcerPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
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 Acer stewarti 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
- Allenby Formation · Princeton Group1
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The named rock units Acer stewarti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acer stewarti and its relatives
EoceneWhere Acer stewarti and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Acer rousei2 sites
- Acer wehri2 sites
- Abies1 site
- Acer princetonense1 site
- Acer stockeyae1 site
- Acer stonebergae1 site
- Acer washingtonense1 site
- Aesculus1 site
- Alnus1 site
- Alnus parvifolia1 site
- Amentotaxus1 site
- Aralia1 site
- Averrhoites1 site
- Betula leopoldae1 site
- Calocedrus1 site
- Carya1 site
- cf. Paleopanax sp.1 site
- Chamaecyparis1 site
- Chaneya tenuis1 site
- Comptonia columbiana1 site
- Cornus1 site
- Corylus1 site
- Crataegus1 site
- Cunninghamia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acer stewarti, 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- The McAbee flora of British Columbia and its relation to the Early-Middle Eocene Okanagan Highlands flora of the Pacific Northwest1
- Systematics, phylogeny, and distribution of Acer (maples) in the Cenozoic of western North America1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Acer stewarti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acer stewarti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acer stewarti 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 itAcer through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wolfe and Tanai 1987