Loranthus
Loranthus is a genus of parasitic plants that grow on the branches of woody trees. It belongs to the family Loranthaceae, the showy mistletoe family. In most earlier systematic treatments it contains all mistletoe species with bisexual flowers, though some species have reversed to unisexual flowers. Other treatments restrict the genus to a few species. The systematic situation of Loranthus is not entirely clear.
Johann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public Domain · 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
- LoranthaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Loranthus 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
4 occurrences- Miocene25%
- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene25%
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 Loranthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Loranthus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Loranthus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
213 taxa- Asteraceae3 sites
- Cerealia3 sites
- Cyperaceae3 sites
- Malvaceae3 sites
- Myriophyllum3 sites
- Poaceae3 sites
- Acanthus2 sites
- Acer2 sites
- Alnus2 sites
- Apiaceae2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Capparis2 sites
- Celtis2 sites
- Fabaceae2 sites
- Heritiera2 sites
- Ilex2 sites
- Juglans regia2 sites
- Lemna2 sites
- Myrica2 sites
- Myrtaceae2 sites
- Nymphoides2 sites
- Plantago2 sites
- Polygonum2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Loranthus, 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
2 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany3
- Quantitative reconstruction of the Late Miocene monsoon climates of southwest China: A case study of the Lincang flora from Yunnan Province1
Each of the 4 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 content1
Picture of Loranthus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Johann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm )
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Loranthus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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, “Loranthus”
- 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 itLoranthaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753