Cladrastis

Cladrastis (yellowwood) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes four species, three native to eastern Asia and one to southeastern North America.

Cladrastis

Elektryczne jabłko · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
yellowwoodPBDB
Sits inside
FabaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 46 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 46 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 19 of 46 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 46 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 46 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 46 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45.9 Mya11.63 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

46 occurrences of Cladrastis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

46 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

12 formations

Itahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.32°N, 138.85°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EJohn Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°ETokoname — 34.88°N, 136.85°EGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WDaido — 36.67°N, 138.83°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOhoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WAkima — 36.00°N, 139.00°E

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The named rock units Cladrastis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cladrastis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cladrastis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Cladrastis, 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

Each of the 46 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 Cladrastis

Credit
Elektryczne jabłko
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cladrastis 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 itFabaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1824