Cercocarpus antiquus
No picture of Cercocarpus antiquus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cercocarpus antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CercocarpusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 12.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
4 occurrences of Cercocarpus antiquus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Cercocarpus antiquus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cercocarpus antiquus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cercocarpus antiquus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Alnus2 sites
- Amorpha oblongifolia2 sites
- Equisetum2 sites
- Fraxinus2 sites
- Leucaena californica2 sites
- Mahonia2 sites
- Picea2 sites
- Pinus florissanti2 sites
- Pinus wheeleri2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
- Quercus convexa2 sites
- Quercus simulata2 sites
- Thuja2 sites
- Typha lesquereuxi2 sites
- Ulmus2 sites
- Zelkova2 sites
- Abies concoloroides1 site
- Acer1 site
- Acer bolanderi1 site
- Acer glabroides1 site
- Acer oregonianum1 site
- Acer scottiae1 site
- Aesculus1 site
- Amelanchier1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cercocarpus antiquus, 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
4 references- Miocene Floras From the Middlegate Basin, West-Central Nevada1
- Fossil Plants of the Tertiary Beaverhead Basins in Southwestern Montana1
- Mio-Pliocene floras from west-central Nevada1
- A Miocene flora from the western border of the Mohave desert1
Each of the 4 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.
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No picture of Cercocarpus antiquus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cercocarpus antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cercocarpus antiquus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCercocarpus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesquereux 1878