Cynometra
Cynometra is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution.

W.A. Djatmiko ( Wie146 ) · CC BY-SA 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 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Cynometra 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
10 occurrences- Eocene10%
- Miocene66%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene10%
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
2 formations
- Lower Churia Formation · Siwalik Group2
- Lower Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Cynometra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cynometra and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cynometra and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
293 taxa- Albizia siwalica3 sites
- Calophyllum suraikholaensis3 sites
- Dipterocarpus siwalicus3 sites
- Entada palaeoscandens3 sites
- Mesua tertiara3 sites
- Acacia2 sites
- Actinodaphne palaeoangustifolia2 sites
- Anisophyllea siwalica2 sites
- Artocarpus nepalensis2 sites
- Bambusa siwalika2 sites
- Bouea koilabasensis2 sites
- Brachystegia cf. laurentii2 sites
- Brachystegia cf. utilis2 sites
- Chonemorpha miocenica2 sites
- Chukrasia miocenica2 sites
- Cinnamomum nepalensis2 sites
- Combretum2 sites
- Dillenia palaeoindica2 sites
- Diospyros koilabasensis2 sites
- Diospyros palaeoebenum2 sites
- Donax ovatus2 sites
- Euphorea siwalica2 sites
- Ficus oodlabariensis2 sites
- Ficus precunea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cynometra, 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- Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications5
- Middle Miocene flora from Siwalik foreland basin of Uttarakhand, India and its phytogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications1
- The maar lake of Mahenge (Tanzania) – unique evidence of Eocene terrestrial environments in sub-Sahara Africa1
- Fossil flora from the Himalayan foot-hills of Darjeeling District, West Bengal and its palaeoecological and phytogeographical significance1
- Climatic environment and air quality in the farrowing units of a pig house1
- Plio-Pleistocene Hippopotamidae from the Upper Semliki1
Each of the 10 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 Cynometra
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- W.A. Djatmiko ( Wie146 )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cynometra 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, “Cynometra”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
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