Celastrus

Celastrus

Uncredited · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
CelastraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 37 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 9 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 10 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–6.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66 Mya15.98 Mya102 Mya3 Mya

37 occurrences of Celastrus on record. 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

37 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

10 formations

Hell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 45.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.40°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 103.89°WHell Creek — 46.16°N, 103.83°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 104.96°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.23°N, 103.93°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.85°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WCretaceous — 43.21°N, 104.63°WDouglas Canyon — 47.45°N, 119.87°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EShihti — 25.16°N, 121.59°ELatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WDajie — 24.10°N, 101.22°E

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The named rock units Celastrus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

512 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Celastrus, 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

12 references

Each of the 37 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 Celastrus

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

No 3D scan of Celastrus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCelastraceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753