Aleurites
Aleurites is a small genus of arborescent flowering plants in the Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1776. It is native to China, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and Queensland. It is also reportedly naturalized on various islands as well as scattered locations in Africa, South America, and Florida.
Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0 · 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
- EuphorbiaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Aleurites on record. 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
10 occurrences- Eocene40%
- Pleistocene60%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Aleurites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
250 taxa- Acacia6 sites
- Agathis6 sites
- Araliaceae6 sites
- Araucaria6 sites
- Archontophoenix6 sites
- Argyrodendron6 sites
- Asplenium6 sites
- Asteraceae6 sites
- Callitris6 sites
- Casuarinaceae6 sites
- Chenopodiaceae6 sites
- Cissus6 sites
- Cunoniaceae6 sites
- Cyathea6 sites
- Dacrydium6 sites
- Davalliaceae6 sites
- Dodonaea6 sites
- Drynaria6 sites
- Elaeocarpus6 sites
- Eucalyptus6 sites
- Flindersia6 sites
- Lonchocarpus6 sites
- Loranthaceae6 sites
- Macaranga6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Aleurites, 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
3 references- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia6
- Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin2
- The Eocene Green River Flora of northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah2
Each of the 10 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 content2
Picture of Aleurites
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Forest & Kim Starr
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Aleurites”
- 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 itEuphorbiaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forster and Forster 1775