Chamaecyparis

Chamaecyparis, common name false-cypress, also simply called cypress, is a genus of conifers in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to eastern Asia and to the western and eastern margins of the United States. The name is derived from the Greek khamai (χαμαί), meaning "on the earth", and kuparissos (κυπάρισσος) for "cypress".

Chamaecyparis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CupressoideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 48 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 48 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 48 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 24 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 48 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 48 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 15 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.7–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–2.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences83.6 Mya2.58 Mya87 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Chamaecyparis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

48 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

15 formations

Chloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WComox — 49.65°N, 125.07°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WChallis Volcanics — 44.37°N, 114.24°WCoal Valley — 39.31°N, 119.65°WSalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WBuchanan Lake — 79.92°N, 88.97°WAkeyo — 35.36°N, 137.18°ERelu — 30.07°N, 100.30°EXiawuanpu — 27.77°N, 112.50°EAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°W

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The named rock units Chamaecyparis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chamaecyparis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chamaecyparis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

409 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Chamaecyparis, 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

22 references

Each of the 48 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Chamaecyparis

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Commercial use
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CT scan

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Specimen
Chamaecyparis obtusa · FMNH:Botany:2097830

3D model

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PBRPX
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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

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

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What may have been alongside itCupressoideae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spach 1841