Laguncularia
Laguncularia is a genus of plants in the family Combretaceae. The only species in the genus is Laguncularia racemosa, the white mangrove.

Ulf Mehlig · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
- CombretaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Laguncularia 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Laguncularia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Laguncularia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Antholithus1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Bignonia1 site
- Bumelia1 site
- Caesalpinia1 site
- Caesalpinites1 site
- Calophyllum1 site
- Capparis1 site
- Cassia1 site
- Celastrus1 site
- Dalbergia1 site
- Dodonea cubensis n. sp.1 site
- Drypetes1 site
- Eugenia1 site
- Exostema1 site
- Fagara1 site
- Gleichenia1 site
- Heliconia1 site
- Inga1 site
- Metopium1 site
- Mimusops1 site
- Myrcia1 site
- Pisonia1 site
- Pithecolobium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Laguncularia, 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
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 Laguncularia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Ulf Mehlig
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Laguncularia 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
- 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 itCombretaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaertner 1807