Bombax
No picture of Bombax was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bombax itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bombax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- cotton treePBDB
- Sits inside
- BombacaceaePBDB
- 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 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.
11 occurrences of Bombax 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Nkondo Formation · Albertine Group1
- Cullen Formation1
- Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation1
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The named rock units Bombax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bombax and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bombax and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
286 taxa- Poaceae7 sites
- Apiaceae6 sites
- Asteraceae6 sites
- Cyperaceae6 sites
- Ephedra6 sites
- Fabaceae6 sites
- Nymphaea6 sites
- Artemisia5 sites
- Cerealia5 sites
- Justicia5 sites
- Polygonum5 sites
- Potamogeton5 sites
- Typha angustata5 sites
- Alnus4 sites
- Boraginaceae4 sites
- Grewia4 sites
- Malvaceae4 sites
- Maytenus4 sites
- Pinus4 sites
- Prosopis4 sites
- Rosaceae4 sites
- Acanthaceae3 sites
- Alternanthera3 sites
- Azadirachta indica3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Bombax, 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- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany6
- The uppermost Oligocene of Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, Southern France): A Cenozoic brackish subtropical Konservat Lagerstätte, with fishes, insects and plants1
- A rich Middle Eocene microflora at Arroyo de los Mineros, near Cañadón Beta, NE Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina1
- Evolution of bovid diversity in the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa1
- The Tertiary flora of the island of Trinidad, B. W. I.1
- A Late Tertiary flora from Bahia, Brazil1
Each of the 11 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Yu Kai Him Otto
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Bombax was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bombax itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bombax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBombacaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753