Forsythia
No picture of Forsythia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Forsythia itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Forsythia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciuridaePBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 5.09 Mya.
6 occurrences of Forsythia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
6 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
- Brackwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
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The named rock units Forsythia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Forsythia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Forsythia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
308 taxa- Aceratherium3 sites
- Anchitherium aurelianense3 sites
- Cervidae3 sites
- Dorcatherium3 sites
- Hylopetes3 sites
- Hyotherium3 sites
- Martes3 sites
- Megacricetodon3 sites
- Soricidae3 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai3 sites
- Steneofiber3 sites
- Talpidae3 sites
- Albanensia2 sites
- Alilepus2 sites
- Amphicyon2 sites
- Amphicyon giganteus2 sites
- Amphilagus2 sites
- Bovidae2 sites
- Brachypotherium brachypus2 sites
- Brachyrhizomys2 sites
- Bunolistriodon2 sites
- Cainotherium2 sites
- Carnivora2 sites
- Dorcabune2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Forsythia, 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
5 references- A preliminary report on a micromammalian assemblage from the hominoid locality of Lufeng, Yunnan2
- Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany)1
- Une faune rare de rhinocérotidés (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) dan le Miocène inférieur de Pellecahus (Gers, France)1
- Late Miocene rodents from the Pandanassa formation (prov. Rethymnon), Crete, Greece1
- Die obermiozäne Säugetierfauna von Anwil (Baselland); (The Upper Miocene mammalian fauna of Anwil, Baselland)1
Each of the 6 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
No picture of Forsythia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Forsythia itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Forsythia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSciuridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mein 1970