Mallotus

Mallotus is a genus of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1790. Two species are found in tropical Africa and Madagascar, while all others are found in East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, eastern Australia, and certain islands of the western Pacific. The genus has about 150 species of dioecious trees or shrubs.

Mallotus

Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · 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
EuphorbiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 64 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 64 occurrencesPleistocene — about 24 of 64 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–7.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.6–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–1.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Mallotus 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

64 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

13 formations

Foulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°ENadu — 22.80°N, 108.33°EMangbang — 24.69°N, 98.63°ELower — 29.14°N, 80.19°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ETokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°EIone — 39.31°N, 120.96°WAkeyo — 35.36°N, 137.18°EMiddle — 26.88°N, 88.32°ETongguer — 40.38°N, 112.97°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EShihti — 25.16°N, 121.59°EChinji — 31.88°N, 76.32°E

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The named rock units Mallotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mallotus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mallotus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

867 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Mallotus, 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

20 references

Each of the 64 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. 8 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 content3

Picture of Mallotus

Credit
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Mallotus villosus · UWFC:ADULT COLLECTION:UW 029513

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itEuphorbiaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loureiro 1790