Airyantha schweinfurthii

yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/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.
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 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 Airyantha schweinfurthii on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene52%
- Pleistocene49%
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.
Airyantha schweinfurthii and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Airyantha schweinfurthii and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Acacia2 sites
- Brachystegia cf. laurentii2 sites
- Brachystegia cf. utilis2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Anthonota macrophylla1 site
- Antidesma1 site
- Aptandra zenkeri1 site
- Brachystegia cf. microphylla1 site
- Combretum1 site
- Cynometra1 site
- Hexaprotodon imaguncula1 site
- Hylochoerus euilus1 site
- Irvingia robur1 site
- Kobus sigmoidalis1 site
- Magnistipula butayei1 site
- Menelikia lyrocera1 site
- Ostryoderris gabonica1 site
- Phoenix1 site
- Pteridophyta1 site
- Reduncini1 site
- Rothmannia urcelliformis1 site
- Roureopsis obliquifoliolata1 site
- Salacia sp.1 site
- Salix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Airyantha schweinfurthii, 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 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 Airyantha schweinfurthii
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Airyantha schweinfurthii 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.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.