Berlinia

Berlinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 21 species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Guinea to Chad, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Angola. All species of Berlinia have "explosive" pods, casting the seeds, in the case of the recently discovered Berlinia korupensis, up to 50 metres (160 ft) away.

Berlinia

Marco Schmidt [1] · CC BY-SA 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
FabaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 16 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya23.04 Mya38.4 Mya1.9 Mya

21 occurrences of Berlinia on record. 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

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

Yaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°E

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

Found in the same rock

152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Berlinia, 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

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 content1

Picture of Berlinia

Credit
Marco Schmidt [1]
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Berlinia 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.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itFabaceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Solander 1849