Machaerium premuticum n. sp.
Machaerium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade of the Dalbergieae. It contains the following species:

Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil · CC BY 2.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 24 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Machaerium premuticum n. sp. on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene77%
- Pliocene12%
- Pleistocene11%
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.
Machaerium premuticum n. sp. and its relatives
MioceneWhere Machaerium premuticum n. sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Bignonites1 site
- Cassia1 site
- Coussapoa1 site
- Endlichera rhamnoides1 site
- Mespilodaphne1 site
- Persea1 site
- Sapium1 site
- Sparattanthelium pliocenicum n. sp.1 site
- Vochysia acuminatafolia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Machaerium premuticum n. sp., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 Machaerium premuticum n. sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Machaerium premuticum n. sp. was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.