Inga

Inga is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs, subfamily Mimosoideae. Inga's leaves are pinnate, and flowers are generally white. Many of the hundreds of species are used ornamentally.

Inga

O Tupinólogo · CC BY 4.0 · 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
FabaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–622 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66 Mya5.333 Mya102 Mya622 ka

23 occurrences of Inga 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

23 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

5 formations

Iguincha — 3.36°S, 79.09°WFarallones — 6.00°N, 72.00°WCerro Pelado — 10.00°N, 71.00°WRockdale — 30.32°N, 97.30°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°W

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The named rock units Inga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Inga and its relatives

Miocene

Where Inga and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Inga, 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

16 references

Each of the 23 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Inga

Credit
O Tupinólogo
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Inga sp. · IGM:MAE:100/3500

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itFabaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scopoli 1777