Semecarpus sp.
Semecarpus is a genus of plants in the family Anacardiaceae. It includes 87 species native to the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Malesia, Taiwan, Papuasia, Queensland, and the South Pacific.

William Roxburgh (1751-1815), Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) · 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 most 2.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Semecarpus sp. on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- 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 Semecarpus sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Semecarpus sp. and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Semecarpus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Albizia mahuadanrensis1 site
- Albizia palaeoprocera1 site
- Cassia1 site
- Cecidomyiidae1 site
- Desmodium1 site
- Ficus1 site
- Gardenia1 site
- Hopeoxylon speciosum1 site
- Hylodesmum sp.1 site
- Lagerstroemia1 site
- Leuciscinae1 site
- Libellulidae1 site
- Mangifera1 site
- Mitragyna1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Praealeurolobus indicus1 site
- Psidium1 site
- Terminalia1 site
- Ziziphus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Semecarpus sp., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Semecarpus sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- William Roxburgh (1751-1815), Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Semecarpus sp. 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, “Semecarpus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.