Mangifera

Mangifera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae. It contains 64 species, with the best-known being the common mango. The center of diversity of the genus is in the Malesian ecoregion of Southeast Asia, particularly in Sumatra, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula. They are generally canopy trees in lowland rainforests, reaching a height of 30–40 m (98–131 ft).

Mangifera

Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
mangoPBDB
Sits inside
AnacardiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 12 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences33.9 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Mangifera on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

12 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

6 formations

Okinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°ETikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°ERajdanda — 23.42°N, 84.13°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EKimin — 27.08°N, 93.65°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°E

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The named rock units Mangifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mangifera and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mangifera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

570 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Mangifera, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Mangifera

Credit
Forest & Kim Starr
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itAnacardiaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753