Bonnetia frequens
Bonnetia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bonnetiaceae. Most of the roughly 30 species are shrubs. The remaining species, all trees, are among the dominant species in the forest vegetation on the tepui plateaus of northern South America, such as B. roraimae on the summit of Mount Roraima.

kevincure · CC BY 2.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bonnetia frequens on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bonnetia frequens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bonnetia frequens and its relatives
MioceneWhere Bonnetia frequens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- ? Cladorca sp.1 site
- Apeiba1 site
- Argopecten1 site
- Carcharhinus ackermannii1 site
- Caryocar recognitum1 site
- Cassipourea brasiliensis1 site
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena1 site
- Davilla destituta1 site
- Diospyros1 site
- Drypetes1 site
- Endlicheria neotropica1 site
- Faramea lapidescens1 site
- Guatteria1 site
- Hirtella1 site
- Hortia1 site
- Hyotissa haitensis1 site
- Leptopecten latiauratus1 site
- Meriania deficiens1 site
- Myrcia1 site
- Naticarius canrena1 site
- Pisonia1 site
- Pitar1 site
- Rapatea primordialis1 site
- Rhinoptera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bonnetia frequens, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Bonnetia frequens
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- kevincure
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bonnetia frequens 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Bonnetia”
- 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 itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.