Koelreuteria

Koelreuteria, also known as chinese lantern tree, is a genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae, native to southern and eastern Asia, as well as the island of Fiji. Many fossil species are also known, suggesting that this genus had a wider range in the past.

Koelreuteria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
golden rain treePBDB
Sits inside
SapindaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 32 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72.2 Mya5.333 Mya92 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Koelreuteria on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

32 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

11 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EZhangcu — 37.08°N, 113.00°EGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EHuazhige — 23.02°N, 104.38°E

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The named rock units Koelreuteria 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.

Koelreuteria and its relatives

Eocene

Where Koelreuteria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

607 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Koelreuteria, 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 32 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 Koelreuteria

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itSapindaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laxmann 1772