Meliosma longifolia
No picture of Meliosma longifolia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meliosma longifolia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeliosmaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 57.5 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Meliosma longifolia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
21 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Meliosma longifolia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meliosma longifolia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Meliosma longifolia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Averrhoites affinis9 sites
- Cercidiphyllum genetrix9 sites
- Metasequoia occidentalis9 sites
- Dicotyledoneae8 sites
- Glyptostrobus europaeus8 sites
- Menispermites parvareolatus7 sites
- Zingiberopsis isonervosa7 sites
- Equisetum6 sites
- Alnus5 sites
- Platanus raynoldsii5 sites
- Ampelopsis acerifolia4 sites
- Cocculus flabella4 sites
- Hamamelidaceae4 sites
- Juglandaceae4 sites
- Platanus4 sites
- Populus4 sites
- Salvinia preauriculata4 sites
- Allantoidiopsis erosa3 sites
- Beringiaphyllum cupanioides3 sites
- Hicoria antiquora3 sites
- Persites argutus3 sites
- Porosia verrucosa3 sites
- Acer2 sites
- Betulaceae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Meliosma longifolia, 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
3 references- Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota10
- Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin8
- Late Paleocene-early Eocene climate changes in southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis3
Each of the 21 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 content0
No picture of Meliosma longifolia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meliosma longifolia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meliosma longifolia 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 itMeliosma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hickey 1977)