Mallotus philippensis

Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- MallotusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Mallotus philippensis 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
5 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene40%
- Holocene20%
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
2 formations
- Middle Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Mangbang Formation1
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The named rock units Mallotus philippensis 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.
Mallotus philippensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mallotus philippensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Betula4 sites
- Carpinus4 sites
- Machilus4 sites
- Abies3 sites
- Alnus3 sites
- Corylus3 sites
- Cyperaceae3 sites
- Juglans3 sites
- Litsea3 sites
- Picea3 sites
- Poaceae3 sites
- Quercus3 sites
- Ranunculaceae3 sites
- Rosaceae3 sites
- Ulmus3 sites
- Acer2 sites
- Acer oblongum2 sites
- Aesculus2 sites
- Alnus nepalensis2 sites
- Apiaceae2 sites
- Berberis2 sites
- Berberis lycium2 sites
- Betula utilis2 sites
- Buxus papillosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mallotus philippensis, 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
4 references- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants2
- Reconstructing Neogene vegetation and climates to infer tectonic uplift in western Yunnan, China1
- Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications1
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany1
Each of the 5 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 Mallotus philippensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mallotus philippensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMallotus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1786)