Calocedrus

Calocedrus, the incense cedar, is a genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family, Cupressaceae, first described as a genus in 1873. Three species are native to eastern Asia and one to western North America.

Calocedrus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CupressaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33.9 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

10 occurrences of Calocedrus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

10 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

Pyramid — 39.90°N, 119.55°WJohn Day — 44.57°N, 119.63°WBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ENingming — 22.14°N, 107.03°ENanlin — 25.12°N, 98.83°EMangbang — 24.69°N, 98.63°EHuazhige — 23.33°N, 104.28°E

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The named rock units Calocedrus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calocedrus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Calocedrus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

205 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Calocedrus, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 Calocedrus

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Calocedrus decurrens · FMNH:Botany:2271774

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itCupressaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kurz 1873