Casuarina

Casuarina, also known as she-oak, Australian pine and native pine, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae, and is native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa.

Casuarina

Atamari · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CasuarinaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 20 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 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 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Casuarina on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

20 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

1 formation

Foulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°E

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The named rock units Casuarina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Casuarina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Casuarina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Casuarina, 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

6 references

Each of the 20 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 content2

Picture of Casuarina

Credit
Atamari
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itCasuarinaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1759