Callicarpa
Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
- VerbenaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
4 occurrences of Callicarpa on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Okinoyama Formation · Ube Group2
- Ohoka Formation1
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The named rock units Callicarpa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Ilex3 sites
- Cordia2 sites
- Ligustrum2 sites
- Maackia2 sites
- Sophora2 sites
- Taxodium dubium2 sites
- Acer1 site
- Actinodaphne palaeoangustifolia1 site
- Albizia palaeolebbek1 site
- Alnus1 site
- Alsodeia palaeozeylanica1 site
- Alstonia mioscholaris1 site
- Bambusites1 site
- Berchemia1 site
- Bursera serratoides1 site
- Caesalpinea microphylla1 site
- Caesalpinea ubensis1 site
- Calophyllum suraikholaensis1 site
- Carpinus1 site
- Cedrela1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Cerbera1 site
- Cercidiphyllum crenatum1 site
- Cinnamomum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Callicarpa, 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- The Eocene flora of the Ube coal-field, southwest Honshu, Japan2
- Fossil flora from the Himalayan foot-hills of Darjeeling District, West Bengal and its palaeoecological and phytogeographical significance1
- Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan1
Each of the 4 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 content3
Picture of Callicarpa
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it

Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Callicarpa americana · FSU:FSU:000189392
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- alexadkinson
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itVerbenaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753