Heliantheae indet.
The Heliantheae are the third-largest tribe in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). With some 190 genera and nearly 2500 recognized species, only the tribes Senecioneae and Astereae are larger. The name is derived from the genus Helianthus, which is Greek for sun flower. Most genera and species are found in North America and South America. A few genera are pantropical.

Uncredited · 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 4.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Heliantheae indet. on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heliantheae indet. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heliantheae indet. and its relatives
EoceneWhere Heliantheae indet. and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Boidae1 site
- Caenolambda jepseni1 site
- Caudata1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Chenopodiaceae1 site
- Diacodexis gracilis1 site
- Dissacus1 site
- Ectocion ignotum1 site
- Eohippus angustidens1 site
- Esteslestes ensis1 site
- Esthonyx1 site
- Ferae1 site
- Galeorhinus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hyopsodus1 site
- Iguanidae1 site
- Meniscotherium chamense1 site
- Oxyaena1 site
- Paramyidae1 site
- Phenacodus vortmani1 site
- Prolimnocyon1 site
- Saniwa1 site
- Ulmaceae1 site
- Wyolestes iglesius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heliantheae indet., 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Heliantheae indet.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Heliantheae indet. 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, “Heliantheae”
- 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.