Trema
Trema is a genus of evergreen trees closely related to the hackberries (Celtis), occurring in subtropical and tropical regions of southern Asia, northern Australasia, Africa, South and Central America, and parts of North America. They are generally small trees, reaching 10–20 m (33–66 ft) tall.

J.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- CannabaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
31 occurrences of Trema on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
31 occurrences- Eocene6%
- Miocene16%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistocene68%
- Holocene9%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Trema has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trema and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Trema and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
299 taxa- Celtis23 sites
- Macaranga23 sites
- Poaceae23 sites
- Podocarpus23 sites
- Urticaceae23 sites
- Acacia22 sites
- Asteraceae22 sites
- Elaeocarpus22 sites
- Eucalyptus22 sites
- Mallotus22 sites
- Monolete22 sites
- Rapanea22 sites
- Chenopodiaceae21 sites
- Dodonaea21 sites
- Rutaceae21 sites
- Sapindaceae21 sites
- Cyperaceae20 sites
- Araucaria19 sites
- Argyrodendron19 sites
- Agathis18 sites
- Callitris18 sites
- Dacrydium18 sites
- Cunoniaceae17 sites
- Hydrocotyle17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Trema, 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
9 references- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia13
- A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen diagram from Lynch’s Crater, northeastern Queensland, Australia9
- Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie2
- Die Miozaenan Frucht-und Samen-Floren die Oberpfaelzer Braunkohle. I. Funde aus den sandigen zwischenmitteln2
- Fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon1
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany1
- Olduvai Gorge, Parts I-Iv: The Skulls, Endocasts, and Teeth of Homo Habilis1
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
- Tertiary plants from Eastern Peru1
Each of the 31 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 Trema
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- J.M.Garg
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trema 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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What may have been alongside itCannabaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loureiro 1790