Artocarpus

Artocarpus is a genus of approximately 60 trees and shrubs of Southeast Asian and Pacific origin, belonging to the mulberry family, Moraceae. Most species of Artocarpus are restricted to Southeast Asia; a few cultivated species are more widely distributed, especially A. altilis (breadfruit) and A. heterophyllus (jackfruit), which are cultivated throughout the tropics.

Artocarpus

Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0 · 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
MoraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 15 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 31 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 31 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–9.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence72.2 Mya129 ka92 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Artocarpus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

31 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

16 formations

Hell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 46.15°N, 103.82°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WExtension — 49.00°N, 124.00°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WRaton — 37.13°N, 104.85°WDawson arkose — 38.83°N, 104.82°WAnimas — 37.03°N, 107.20°WDenver? — 39.73°N, 104.98°WWasatch — 36.73°N, 108.22°WFox Hills — 46.53°N, 100.47°WRockdale — 30.32°N, 97.30°WD1 — 39.38°N, 104.86°WGeabdat Sandstone — 26.91°N, 88.59°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°ETura — 25.49°N, 90.77°E

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The named rock units Artocarpus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Artocarpus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Artocarpus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

476 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Artocarpus, 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

14 references

Each of the 31 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. 2 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 Artocarpus

Credit
Forest & Kim Starr
Licence
CC BY 3.0
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 was 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 itMoraceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forster and Forster 1776