Aesculus hickeyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AesculusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Aesculus hickeyi on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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 Aesculus hickeyi 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.
Aesculus hickeyi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Aesculus hickeyi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Ampelopsis acerifolia2 sites
- Cercidiphyllum genetrix2 sites
- Dicotyledoneae2 sites
- Lauraceae2 sites
- Persites argutus2 sites
- Beringiaphyllum cupanioides1 site
- Browniea serrata1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Celtis aspera1 site
- Chaetoptelea microphylla1 site
- Cornus hyperborea1 site
- Corylites1 site
- Davidia antiqua1 site
- Ficus artocarpoides1 site
- Juglandiphyllites glabra1 site
- Platanus raynoldsi1 site
- Trochodendroides flabella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aesculus hickeyi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction2
- Leaves and fruits of Aesculus (Sapindales) from the Paleocene of North America1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aesculus hickeyi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Aesculus hickeyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aesculus hickeyi 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 itAesculus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Manchester 2001