Cosmibuena sp.
Cosmibuena is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is native to Chiapas, Central America, and South America as far south as Brazil.

Photo by David J. Stang · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cosmibuena sp. on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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 Cosmibuena sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cosmibuena sp. and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cosmibuena sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- <Fern>2 sites
- Arecaceae2 sites
- Crudia sp.2 sites
- Ctenitis sp.2 sites
- Ilex2 sites
- Plantae2 sites
- Rhizophora2 sites
- Alsophila1 site
- Bumelia1 site
- Ceratopteris1 site
- Chomelia sp.1 site
- Combretaceae1 site
- Cyathea1 site
- Ericaceae1 site
- Malpighiaceae1 site
- Malvaceae1 site
- Myrtaceae1 site
- Poaceae1 site
- Podocarpus1 site
- Pteris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cosmibuena sp., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cosmibuena sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Photo by David J. Stang
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cosmibuena sp. 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, “Cosmibuena”
- 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.