Berberis

Berberis, commonly known as barberry, is a large genus of deciduous and evergreen shrubs from 1–5 m tall, found throughout temperate and subtropical regions of the world. Species diversity is greatest in South America and Asia, but native species also appear in Europe, Africa, and North America.

Berberis

Uncredited · CC BY-SA 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
BerberidaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 19 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Berberis 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

19 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

5 formations

Mauri — 17.07°S, 69.15°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WChangtai — 31.33°N, 98.83°ELaoliangdi — 42.30°N, 119.00°EZanda — 31.73°N, 79.56°E

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The named rock units Berberis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Berberis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Berberis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

541 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Berberis, 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

9 references

Each of the 19 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 Berberis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itBerberidaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753