Buxus

Buxus is a genus of about seventy species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box and boxwood.

Buxus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
boxwoodPBDB
Sits inside
BuxaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 22 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences27.3 Mya2.58 Mya34.6 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Buxus on record. 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

22 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

7 formations

Ogawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ETokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°EYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EAkeyo — 35.36°N, 137.18°EChifeng — 44.00°N, 117.00°EXiananshan — 29.15°N, 121.23°ESanying — 26.57°N, 100.13°E

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The named rock units Buxus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

652 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Buxus, 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

10 references

Each of the 22 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 Buxus

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. MPF assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Buxus was found in Sketchfab.

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