Callicoma serratifolia

Callicoma is a plant genus that contains just one species, Callicoma serratifolia, a tall shrub or small tree native to Australia. Callicoma serratifolia is commonly known as black wattle. One explanation for the name is the similarity of the flowers to those of Australian Acacia, which are commonly known as wattles. Another explanation is its use in wattle and daub huts of the early settlers. The species has a number of other common names include callicoma, butterwood, silver leaf, silver-leaf butterwood and wild quince.

Callicoma serratifolia

Edward Minchen (1862-1913) · Public Domain · 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
CallicomaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 4.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.3 Mya – 23.04 Mya34.5 Mya2 Mya

5 occurrences of Callicoma serratifolia on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

5 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.

Callicoma serratifolia and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Callicoma serratifolia and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Callicoma serratifolia, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 Callicoma serratifolia

Credit
Edward Minchen (1862-1913)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Callicoma serratifolia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itCallicoma through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Andrews 1809