Ailanthus confucii
No picture of Ailanthus confucii 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 Ailanthus confucii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AilanthusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
5 occurrences of Ailanthus confucii 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ailanthus confucii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ailanthus confucii and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ailanthus confucii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Magnolia2 sites
- Populus2 sites
- Abies1 site
- Acer1 site
- Acer campestre1 site
- Actinidia1 site
- Aenigmavis sapea1 site
- Alnus kefersteinii1 site
- Ampelopsis1 site
- Ampelopsis tertiaria1 site
- Aralia1 site
- Azolla1 site
- Bauhinia wenshanensis1 site
- Beckettia1 site
- Berchemia mellerae1 site
- Betula1 site
- Butomus1 site
- Camelliacarpoidea messelensis1 site
- Carex1 site
- Carpinus1 site
- Carpinus betulus1 site
- Carpolithus1 site
- Carpolithus callosaeoides1 site
- Cayratia jungii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ailanthus confucii, 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
4 references- Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie2
- Fossil fruits of Ailanthus confucii from the Upper Miocene of Wenshan, Yunnan Province, southwestern China1
- Fossil fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Messel biota, Germany1
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China1
Each of the 5 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 Ailanthus confucii 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 Ailanthus confucii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ailanthus confucii 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAilanthus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Unger 1850