Dichroa bornensis
Dichroa was a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Hydrangeaceae, native to eastern and southeastern Asia. It is now included in genus Hydrangea. These are deciduous shrubs growing to 1–3 m tall, with their leaves arranged in opposite pairs. The flowers are produced in a broad inflorescence similar to that of the related genus Hydrangea. The fruit is a glossy metallic purple-blue berry.

Stickpen · Public Domain · 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 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dichroa bornensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Dichroa bornensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Dichroa bornensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Ampelopsis1 site
- Athrotaxis1 site
- Calamus daemonorops1 site
- Comptonia1 site
- Dusembaya turgaica1 site
- Engelhardia1 site
- Fortunearia altenburgensis1 site
- Halesia1 site
- Laurocarpum1 site
- Manglietia germanica1 site
- Microdiptera parva1 site
- Moroidea boveyana1 site
- Phoebe1 site
- Sequoia1 site
- Stewartia1 site
- Tetraclinis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dichroa bornensis, 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 1 occurrence 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 Dichroa bornensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Stickpen
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dichroa bornensis 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Dichroa”
- 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.