Cassia

Cassia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, and the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Species are known commonly as cassias. The genus includes 37 species and has a pantropical distribution. Species of the genera Senna and Chamaecrista were previously included in Cassia. Cassia now generally includes the largest species of the legume subtribe Cassiinae, usually mid-sized to tall trees.

Cassia

Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 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 78 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 67 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 67 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 67 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 67 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 67 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 35 of 67 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 67 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 67 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 17 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences83.6 Mya5.333 Mya103 Mya0 Mya

67 occurrences of Cassia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

67 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

13 formations

Lower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EFarallones — 6.00°N, 72.00°WMilk River — 49.17°N, 111.87°WMilk River — 49.07°N, 111.59°WXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°ECerro Pelado — 10.00°N, 71.00°WHalf Three Point — 62.18°S, 58.97°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WRajdanda — 23.42°N, 84.13°EHaridwar — 30.04°N, 78.15°EMenshi — 32.17°N, 79.97°ETakli — 21.35°N, 78.99°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°ETuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°W

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The named rock units Cassia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cassia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cassia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

834 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Cassia, 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

28 references

Each of the 67 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 Cassia

Credit
Forest & Kim Starr
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itFabaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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