Mortoniodendron
Mortoniodendron is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
No picture of Mortoniodendron 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 Mortoniodendron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MalvaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mortoniodendron on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mortoniodendron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mortoniodendron and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Mortoniodendron and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Poaceae3 sites
- <Amaranthaceae/Chenopodiaceae>2 sites
- <not identified>2 sites
- Acer2 sites
- Alnus2 sites
- Apiaceae2 sites
- Arceuthobium sp.2 sites
- Arecaceae2 sites
- Asteraceae2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Carya2 sites
- Cathaya2 sites
- Cistaceae2 sites
- Cistus2 sites
- Diplopanax sp.2 sites
- Engelhardia2 sites
- Ericaceae2 sites
- Euphorbiaceae2 sites
- Fabaceae2 sites
- Gleicheniaceae2 sites
- Ilex aquifolium2 sites
- Juglans2 sites
- Myrica2 sites
- Myrtaceae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mortoniodendron, 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
2 references- Niche evolution versus niche conservatism and habitat loss determine persistence and extirpation in late Neogene European Fagaceae2
- Studies in Neotropical Paleobotany. X. The Pliocene communities of Panama - Composistion, numerical representations, and paleocommunity paleoenvironmental reconstructions.1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Mortoniodendron 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 Mortoniodendron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mortoniodendron 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMalvaceae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Standley and Steyermark 1938