Roupala

Roupala is a Neotropical genus of woody shrubs and trees in the plant family Proteaceae. Its 34 species are generally found in forests from sea level to 4,000 m (13,000 ft) altitude from Mexico to Argentina.

A picture published with the record for Roupala. What it shows has not been checked.

Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl · Public Domain · 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.

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya15.98 Mya56.9 Mya10.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Roupala 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

2 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

Iguincha — 3.40°S, 79.10°W

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The named rock units Roupala 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.

Roupala and its relatives

Eocene

Where Roupala and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Roupala, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

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. 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 content1

Picture of Roupala

Credit
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Roupala was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aublet 1775