Schinopsis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnacardiaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 80 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
9 occurrences of Schinopsis 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
9 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
2 formations
- San José Formation · Santa María Group3
- Mata Amarilla Formation1
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The named rock units Schinopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Schinopsis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Schinopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
167 taxa- Carpolithus2 sites
- Castaneophyllum patagonicum2 sites
- Cedrela2 sites
- Celtis2 sites
- Cupania2 sites
- Maytenus2 sites
- Myrica mira2 sites
- Nectandra patagonica2 sites
- Phyllites2 sites
- Poacites2 sites
- Sapindus2 sites
- Sterculia patagonica2 sites
- Strychnos2 sites
- Styrax2 sites
- Acmopyle engelhardti1 site
- Acrodiclidium oligocaenicum1 site
- Adenocalymma tertiaria n. sp.1 site
- Allamanda crassostipitata1 site
- Allophyllus eduliformis1 site
- Allophyllus graciliformis1 site
- Ampelodaphne grandifolia1 site
- Anacardites1 site
- Anacardites pichileufensis1 site
- Annona1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Schinopsis, 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
5 references- Megaflora (hojas y frutos) de la Formación San José (Mioceno Medio) en río Seco, departamento Santa María, provincia de Catamarca, Argentina3
- Tertiary flora from the Rio Pichileufu, Argentina2
- Tercera noticia sobre los vertebrados fosiles de las Arenas Puelchenses de Villa Ballester2
- La Flora Fósil de la región del Alto Río Chalia en Santa Cruz (Patagonia)1
- A Miocene flora from Patagonia1
Each of the 9 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 Schinopsis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Schinopsis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Engler 1876