Eranthemum
Eranthemum is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 23 species native to the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, Sumatra, and Java.

Plooth · 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
- AcanthaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Eranthemum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Eranthemum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Eranthemum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Adhatoda1 site
- Albizia1 site
- Alnus1 site
- Anacardiaceae1 site
- Apiaceae1 site
- Apocynaceae1 site
- Artemisia1 site
- Asteraceae1 site
- Baliospermum1 site
- Bischofia javanica1 site
- Bombacaceae1 site
- Brassicaceae1 site
- Caesalpinaceae1 site
- Calamus tenuis1 site
- Caryophyllaceae1 site
- Celastraceae1 site
- Combretaceae1 site
- Cyperaceae1 site
- Elaeagnaceae1 site
- Engelhardia1 site
- Euphorbia1 site
- Euphorbiaceae1 site
- Fabaceae1 site
- Ficus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eranthemum, 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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Eranthemum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Plooth
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eranthemum 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, “Eranthemum”
- 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 itAcanthaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753