Dalbergia

Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade : the Dalbergieae. The genus has a wide distribution, native to the tropical regions of Central and South America, Africa, Madagascar and Southern Asia.

Dalbergia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FabaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 774 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 29 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51.1 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Dalbergia 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

29 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

8 formations

Willwood — 44.19°N, 108.60°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 110.00°WLower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°ELower — 31.95°N, 76.27°EHaridwar — 30.04°N, 78.15°EKimin — 27.08°N, 93.65°EGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°W

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The named rock units Dalbergia 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.

Dalbergia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dalbergia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

593 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Dalbergia, 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

15 references

Each of the 29 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. 3 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 Dalbergia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
ITEMM
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 1782