Parashorea
Parashorea is a genus of plant in family Dipterocarpaceae. The name Parashorea is derived from Greek and refers to the genus similarity to Shorea. It contains about 14 species distributed from South Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China and the southernmost parts of China to Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines.

Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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- Sits inside
- DipterocarpaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Parashorea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Lower Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Parashorea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parashorea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parashorea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Alicornops complanatum1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Brachypotherium1 site
- Calophyllum suraikholaensis1 site
- Chilotherium1 site
- Corypha1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Deinotherium indicum1 site
- Dipterocarpaceae1 site
- Giraffidae1 site
- Gomphotherium1 site
- Hipparion1 site
- Hippopotamodon1 site
- Hopea kathgodamensis1 site
- Ixora purniyagiriensis1 site
- Kayea kalagarhensis1 site
- Khoratpithecus piriyai1 site
- Megalochelys sivalensis1 site
- Merycopotamus medioximus1 site
- Microbunodon milaensis1 site
- Myristica siwalica1 site
- Propotamochoerus hysudricus1 site
- Randia tanakpurensis1 site
- Stegodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Parashorea, 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- Middle Miocene flora from Siwalik foreland basin of Uttarakhand, India and its phytogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications1
- A new orang-utan relative from the Late Miocene of Thailand1
Each of the 2 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 content1
Picture of Parashorea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parashorea 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Parashorea”
- 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 itDipterocarpaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kurz 1870