Agathis

Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammara, is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees, native to Australasia and Southeast Asia. It is one of three extant genera in the family Araucariaceae, alongside Wollemia and Araucaria. Its leaves are much broader than most conifers. Kauri gum was historically commercially harvested from living New Zealand kauri and from swamp ground. They are mainly tropical conifers, however a few species are found in temperate climates.

Agathis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AraucariaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 142 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 87 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 87 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 87 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 87 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 87 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 87 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 87 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene — about 37 of 87 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 11 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–27 Mya — about 11 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–0 Mya — about 38 occurrences143.1 Mya129 ka165 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Agathis 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

87 occurrences

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

10 formations

Huitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°ELefipán — 42.68°S, 69.83°WYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°ETaratu — 43.18°S, 171.78°EPurlawaugh — 32.17°S, 149.70°EEyre — 29.32°S, 137.30°EPidinga — 31.24°S, 121.63°EVentana — 41.10°S, 70.82°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°W

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The named rock units Agathis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Agathis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Agathis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

686 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Agathis, 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

18 references

Each of the 87 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Agathis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAraucariaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salisbury 1807