Andromeda novaecaesareae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AndromedaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
6 occurrences of Andromeda novaecaesareae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Andromeda novaecaesareae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Andromeda novaecaesareae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Andromeda novaecaesareae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Ficus krausiana4 sites
- Salix lesquereuxii4 sites
- Andromeda grandifolia3 sites
- Andromeda parlatorii3 sites
- Celastrophyllum crenatum3 sites
- Diospyros primaeva3 sites
- Ficus daphnogenoides3 sites
- Lycopodium cretaceum3 sites
- Myrsine borealis3 sites
- Salix flexuosa3 sites
- Tricalycites papyraceus3 sites
- Widdringtonites reichii3 sites
- Widdringtonites subtilis3 sites
- Bauhinia marylandica2 sites
- Brachyphyllum macrocarpum2 sites
- Cinnamomum newberryi2 sites
- Citrophyllum aligerum2 sites
- Cordia apiculata2 sites
- Crotonophyllum panduraeformis2 sites
- Dammara borealis2 sites
- Dicksonia groenlandica2 sites
- Diospyros rotundifolius2 sites
- Eucalyptus geinitzi2 sites
- Ficus crassipes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Andromeda novaecaesareae, 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
3 references- Upper Cretaceous floras of the eastern Gulf region in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia3
- The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia2
- Upper Cretaceous conifer leaf fossils from the Black Creek Formation with an assessment of affinitiesusing principal components analysis1
Each of the 6 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 Andromeda novaecaesareae
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAndromeda through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hollick 1896