Vatica
Vatica is a genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. Its species range from India and southern China through Sri Lanka, Indochina, Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Guinea.
Forestowlet · CC0 · 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
- DipterocarpaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
2 occurrences of Vatica on record. 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Vatica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Actinodaphne palaeoangustifolia1 site
- Albizia microfolia1 site
- Albizia siwalica1 site
- Ancistrocladus suraikholaensis1 site
- Anisophyllea siwalica1 site
- Anthocephalus siwalica1 site
- Artocarpus nepalensis1 site
- Bambusa siwalika1 site
- Batagurinae1 site
- Bauhinia nepalensis1 site
- Bombacites orientalis1 site
- Bouea koilabasensis1 site
- Breynia prerhamnoides1 site
- Bridelia mioretusa1 site
- Bridelia siwalica1 site
- Calophyllum suraikholaensis1 site
- Caryota siwalica1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Chisocheton suraikholaensis1 site
- Chonemorpha miocenica1 site
- Chukrasia miocenica1 site
- Cinnamomum nepalensis1 site
- Cleistanthus suraikholaensis1 site
- Cocculus miotrilobus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Vatica, 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
2 references- Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications1
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
Each 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. 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 Vatica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Forestowlet
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vatica 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, “Vatica”
- 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 itDipterocarpaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1771