Ceratopetalum

Ceratopetalum is a genus of nine species of plants in the family Cunoniaceae. They are native to eastern Australia and New Guinea. They are trees or large shrubs of rainforest or moist sclerophyll forest, some producing useful timber. Fossil records suggest the range of the genus extended to the Americas in the past.

Ceratopetalum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CunoniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya33.9 Mya56.8 Mya15.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Ceratopetalum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

5 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

3 formations

Huitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°E

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

Ceratopetalum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ceratopetalum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ceratopetalum, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 Ceratopetalum

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ceratopetalum was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCunoniaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1793