Trochodendron nastae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- TrochodendronPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Trochodendron nastae 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- Eocene100%
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 Trochodendron nastae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trochodendron nastae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Trochodendron nastae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Cimbicidae2 sites
- Ichneumonidae2 sites
- Aculeata1 site
- Anthophila1 site
- Apoidea1 site
- Archaeoscoliinae1 site
- Braconidae1 site
- Cruciptera simsonii1 site
- Diapriinae1 site
- Eorpa ypsipeda1 site
- Formicidae1 site
- Halictidae1 site
- Ithyceroides klondikensis1 site
- Koelreuteria1 site
- Koelreuteria dilcheri1 site
- Myrmeciinae1 site
- Myrmeciites1 site
- Nordenskioldia1 site
- Pachymerina1 site
- Pompilidae1 site
- Proctotrupidae1 site
- Roproniidae1 site
- Sphecidae1 site
- Tenthredinidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Trochodendron nastae, 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
1 referenceEach 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. 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 Trochodendron nastae
- Source
- Wikidata/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 Trochodendron nastae 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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What may have been alongside itTrochodendron through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pigg et al. 2001