Acer pictum
TeunSpaans · Public Domain · 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
- AcerPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acer pictum 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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 Acer pictum 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.
Acer pictum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Acer pictum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Aesculus2 sites
- Alnus2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Carpinus2 sites
- Fraxinus2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
- Salix2 sites
- Abies1 site
- Acer diabolicum1 site
- Acer pentapomicum1 site
- Acer villosum1 site
- Aesculus indica1 site
- Albizia kalkora1 site
- Alnus nepalensis1 site
- Apiaceae1 site
- Betula utilis1 site
- Botryococcus1 site
- Caryophyllaceae1 site
- Cedrus1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Cercidiphyllum1 site
- Cercis1 site
- Cinnamomum1 site
- Cornus macrophylla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acer pictum, 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- Pleistocene fossil leaflets of Albizia kalkora (Roxb.) Prain (Leguminosae subfamily Mimosoideae) from central Honshu, Japan, and its implications for historical biogeography1
- 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 Acer pictum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- TeunSpaans
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acer pictum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAcer through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thunberg 1784