Areca

Areca is a genus of palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests from the islands of the Philippines and Malaysia, India, and across Southeast Asia to Melanesia. The generic name Areca is derived from a name used locally on the Malabar Coast of India.

Areca

Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public Domain · 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
ArecaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At most 43 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66.9 Mya22.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Areca on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°E

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The named rock units Areca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Areca and its relatives

Eocene

Where Areca and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Areca, 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

2 references

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Areca

Credit
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Areca 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.

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 itArecaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753