Carya

Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya, which includes 19 species accepted by Plants of the World Online.

Carya

Bruce Marlin · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
Also called
hickoryPBDB
Sits inside
JuglandaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 306 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 44 of 306 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 119 of 306 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 45 of 306 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 62 of 306 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 306 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 306 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 8 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 13 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 13 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 13 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 12 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 12 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 14 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 17 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 17 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 17 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 20 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 15 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 12 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 12 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 12 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 8 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 16 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

306 occurrences of Carya on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

306 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

50 formations

Sagavanirktok — 69.79°N, 148.64°WSagavanirktok — 69.76°N, 148.79°WSagavanirktok — 69.95°N, 144.55°WSagavanirktok — 69.82°N, 148.68°WNanafalia — 32.52°N, 88.49°WNanafalia — 32.76°N, 88.77°WNanafalia — 32.59°N, 88.67°WLisbon — 31.56°N, 87.90°WLisbon — 31.52°N, 84.11°WAquia — 38.17°N, 77.04°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WTuscahoma — 32.59°N, 88.67°WTuscahoma — 32.35°N, 88.70°WTuscahoma — 32.60°N, 88.65°WChallis Volcanics — 44.37°N, 114.24°WMalboro Clay — 38.17°N, 77.04°WCanning — 69.79°N, 145.32°WCanning — 69.86°N, 145.27°WCanning — 69.92°N, 143.38°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.46°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.41°WBlack Mingo — 32.89°N, 80.36°WBashi — 32.35°N, 88.70°WBashi — 31.27°N, 86.13°WBashi — 31.47°N, 85.64°WBashi — 31.52°N, 84.11°WNanjemoy — 38.17°N, 77.04°WTallahatta — 31.56°N, 87.91°WTallahatta — 31.52°N, 84.11°WTallahatta — 32.33°N, 88.78°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.70°WCooper — 32.89°N, 80.36°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EFort Union — 43.40°N, 105.30°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 106.00°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.00°WBaker Hill — 31.70°N, 85.34°WPiney Point — 37.66°N, 77.17°WPiney Point — 37.67°N, 77.14°WWinona — 32.22°N, 88.84°WValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WSeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°E

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The named rock units Carya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 138 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carya and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carya and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,000 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 226 sites for Carya, 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

68 references

Each of the 306 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. 56 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Carya

Credit
Bruce Marlin
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Carya aquatica · uf:paleobotany:1561

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. Nuttall 1818