Firmiana

Firmiana is a genus of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and temperate south, southeast, and Eastern Asia to New Guinea and the southwest Pacific. It was formerly placed in the now defunct family Sterculiaceae and may sometimes be called the "parasol tree". The genus name honours Karl Joseph von Firmian. The defining characteristic of the genus Firmiana is the development of the fruit. Shortly after pollination the five carpels unfold to be flat and turn green with four developing seeds attached to the edge, fully exposed to the environment.

Firmiana

KENPEI · 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
MalvaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya11.63 Mya48.9 Mya4.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Firmiana 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

3 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

3 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°E

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The named rock units Firmiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Firmiana and its relatives

Miocene

Where Firmiana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Firmiana, 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

Each of the 3 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 Firmiana

Credit
KENPEI
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Firmiana 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

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 itMalvaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsili 1786