Erythrophleum
Erythrophleum is a genus of legume in the family Fabaceae. It includes ten species native to sub-Saharan Africa, Indochina, southern China, and northern Australia.

Paul Taubert · 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FabaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
2 occurrences of Erythrophleum on record. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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 Erythrophleum 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.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Acer2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Jasminum2 sites
- Lithocarpus2 sites
- Machilus2 sites
- Nothaphoebe2 sites
- Phoebe pseudolanceolata2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
- Abarema xiaolongtanensis1 site
- Acer macrophyllum1 site
- Alangium1 site
- Albizia1 site
- Albizia miokalkora1 site
- Annona1 site
- Berhamniphyllum miofloribundum1 site
- Byttneriophyllum tiliaefolium1 site
- Calocedrus1 site
- Campylotropis1 site
- Carya1 site
- Cassia1 site
- Castanea1 site
- Castanopsis1 site
- Cephalotaxus1 site
- Cercis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Erythrophleum, 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
2 references- Quantitative climate reconstructions of the late Miocene Xiaolongtan megaflora from Yunnan, southwest China1
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China1
Each 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. 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 Erythrophleum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Paul Taubert
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Erythrophleum 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
- 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 timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Afzelius 1826