Carpinus grandis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarpinusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
11 occurrences of Carpinus grandis 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
11 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
- Chu Chua Formation · Kamloops Group1
- Allenby Formation1
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The named rock units Carpinus grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carpinus grandis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Carpinus grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Acer1 site
- Alnus1 site
- Alnus kefersteinii1 site
- Alnus parvifolia1 site
- Comptonia predryandroides1 site
- Corylus macquarrii1 site
- Diospyros1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Ginkgo adiantoides1 site
- Glyptostrobus europaeus1 site
- Hicoria1 site
- Leguminosites borealis1 site
- Liriodendron1 site
- Myrica uglowi1 site
- Phragmites alaskana1 site
- Pinus steenstrupiana1 site
- Pinus trunculus1 site
- Populus1 site
- Quercophyllum groenlandicus1 site
- Quercus1 site
- Sassafras1 site
- Sequoia1 site
- Sorbus1 site
- Taxodium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Carpinus grandis, 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
7 references- Die Floren des Haselbacher Serie im Weisselster-Becken (Bezirk Leipzig, DDR)4
- Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie2
- The Oligocene Volcanic Flora of Kundratice near Litomerice, Ceske Stredohori Volcanic Complex (Czech Republic) - A review1
- Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Tertiarflora von Seifhennersdorf (Sachsen)1
- Miocenska Flora ze Starych Gliwic na Slasku (Miocene Flora of Stare Gliwice in Upper Silesia)1
- Tertiary floras from British Columbia1
- On fossil plants from the Similkameen Valley and other places in the Southern Interior of British Columbia1
Each of the 11 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 Carpinus grandis
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCarpinus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Unger 1845