Mussaenda

Mussaenda

Uncredited · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
RubiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At most 10 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrencePaleocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66.5 Mya55.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Mussaenda on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

1 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

1 formation

Wulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°E

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The named rock units Mussaenda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mussaenda and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Mussaenda and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mussaenda, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Mussaenda

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mussaenda 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itRubiaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

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