Meliosma

Meliosma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sabiaceae, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern and eastern Asia and the Americas. It is traditionally considered to contain about 100 species; some botanists take a much more conservative view accepting only 20-25 species as distinct. They are trees or shrubs, growing to 10–45 m tall.

Meliosma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SabiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 13 of 85 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 33 of 85 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 85 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 85 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 85 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 85 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 11 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence57.5 Mya11.7 ka62 Mya0 Mya

85 occurrences of Meliosma on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

85 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

19 formations

Golden Valley — 47.25°N, 102.09°WGolden Valley — 47.98°N, 102.05°WGolden Valley — 46.92°N, 102.08°WGolden Valley — 47.31°N, 102.11°WGolden Valley — 46.97°N, 102.08°WGolden Valley — 46.92°N, 102.58°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 102.67°WGolden Valley — 47.10°N, 102.98°WGolden Valley — 47.37°N, 103.02°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.51°N, 108.25°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.40°N, 108.84°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.83°N, 1.25°ELondon Clay — 51.78°N, 2.27°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°EFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.72°N, 107.80°WWasatch — 41.69°N, 107.88°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EBovey Tracey Lignite — 50.58°N, 3.68°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WBagshot — 50.72°N, 2.00°WLower — 31.95°N, 76.27°ENanlin — 25.12°N, 98.83°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°ELiuqu — 29.17°N, 87.75°ENadu — 22.80°N, 108.33°EShinao — 25.77°N, 104.65°E

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The named rock units Meliosma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meliosma and its relatives

Eocene

Where Meliosma and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

635 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Meliosma, 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

26 references

Each of the 85 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. 14 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 content2

Picture of Meliosma

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. MPF assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Meliosma berryi · usnm:paleobiology:pal722043

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 itSabiaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blume 1823