Jasminum
Jasmine is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae. It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Jasmines are widely cultivated for the characteristic fragrance of their flowers.
Jim Evans · CC BY-SA 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- Also called
- jasminePBDB
- Sits inside
- OleaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
10 occurrences of Jasminum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
10 occurrences- Oligocene10%
- Miocene20%
- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene20%
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 Jasminum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Jasminum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Jasminum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
217 taxa- Cyperaceae7 sites
- Liliaceae7 sites
- Poaceae7 sites
- Apiaceae6 sites
- Asteraceae6 sites
- Caryophyllaceae6 sites
- Cerealia5 sites
- Ilex5 sites
- Plantago5 sites
- Polygonum5 sites
- Quercus5 sites
- Urticaceae5 sites
- Artemisia4 sites
- Asplenium4 sites
- Fabaceae4 sites
- Impatiens4 sites
- Lemna4 sites
- Myriophyllum4 sites
- Potamogeton4 sites
- Rutaceae4 sites
- Strobilanthes4 sites
- Betula3 sites
- Campanula3 sites
- Epilobium3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Jasminum, 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
4 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany7
- Quantitative climate reconstructions of the late Miocene Xiaolongtan megaflora from Yunnan, southwest China1
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China1
- Miocenska Flora ze Starych Gliwic na Slasku (Miocene Flora of Stare Gliwice in Upper Silesia)1
Each of the 10 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 content2
Picture of Jasminum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jim Evans
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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, “Jasmine”
- 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 itOleaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753