Catalpa

Catalpa, commonly also called catawba, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia.

Catalpa

Uncredited · 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
BignoniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 8 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 8 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 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37.71 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

8 occurrences of Catalpa on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

8 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

6 formations

John Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°ERenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WXigeda — 27.17°N, 102.17°EShulan — 44.33°N, 127.00°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°E

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The named rock units Catalpa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Catalpa and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Catalpa and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Catalpa, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Catalpa

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Catalpa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itBignoniaceae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scopoli 1777