Lomatia

Lomatia is a genus of 12 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae. Within the family, they have been placed, alone, in their own subtribe, Lomatiinae according to Johnson & Briggs 1975 classification of the family and subsequently in Flora of Australia (1995).

Lomatia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProteaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 41 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 41 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 41 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 41 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 41 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 41 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences56 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

41 occurrences of Lomatia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

41 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

7 formations

Huitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WRío Turbio — 51.47°S, 72.23°WLa Huitrera — 42.55°S, 70.27°WÑirihuau — 41.58°S, 70.97°WVentana — 41.10°S, 70.82°WPidinga — 31.24°S, 121.63°E

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The named rock units Lomatia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lomatia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lomatia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Lomatia, 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

14 references

Each of the 41 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. 2 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 content1

Picture of Lomatia

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Casliber assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lomatia 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.

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What may have been alongside itProteaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1810