Aphananthe

Aphananthe is a small genus of evergreen trees in the family Cannabaceae. Around six species are recognised, found in Korea, Japan, Madagascar, South-east Asia, Mexico, Central America, and Australia. Leaves are alternate on the stem and toothed. Flowers are unisexual, fruit form as drupes. The generic name of Aphananthe refers to insignificant flowers. Species include Aphananthe aspera and Aphananthe philippinensis.

Aphananthe

Poyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0 · 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
CannabaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 21 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Aphananthe on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

21 occurrences

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

Tokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°E

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The named rock units Aphananthe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphananthe and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Aphananthe and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

313 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Aphananthe, 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

6 references

Each of the 21 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 Aphananthe

Credit
Poyt448 Peter Woodard
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Aphananthe sp. · usnm:paleobiology:772344

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

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 itCannabaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Planchon 1848