Sloanea
Sloanea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae, comprising about 150 species.
Uncredited · 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- Also called
- bullwoodPBDB
- Sits inside
- ElaeocarpaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
21 occurrences of Sloanea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
21 occurrences- Eocene48%
- Oligocene12%
- Miocene2%
- Pleistocene38%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Sloanea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sloanea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sloanea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
554 taxa- Cyathea11 sites
- Dicotyledoneae10 sites
- Agathis9 sites
- Araucaria9 sites
- Celtis9 sites
- Cunoniaceae9 sites
- Melicope9 sites
- Podocarpus9 sites
- Rapanea9 sites
- Syzygium9 sites
- Urticaceae9 sites
- Acacia8 sites
- Archontophoenix8 sites
- Argyrodendron8 sites
- Balanops8 sites
- Callitris8 sites
- Casuarinaceae8 sites
- Dacrydium8 sites
- Davalliaceae8 sites
- Dodonaea8 sites
- Drynaria8 sites
- Elaeocarpus8 sites
- Eucalyptus8 sites
- Flindersia8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Sloanea, 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- Late Paleocene-early Eocene climate changes in southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis9
- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia8
- The Rauenberg fossil Lagerstätte (Baden-Württemberg, Germany): A window into early Oligocene marine and coastal ecosystems of Central Europe2
- Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction1
- The Oligo-Miocene coal floras of southeastern Australia1
Each of the 21 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 Sloanea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Sloanea 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Sloanea”
- 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 itElaeocarpaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753