Cocculus

Cocculus

Uncredited · 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
MenispermaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 48 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 48 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 19 of 48 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 48 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 48 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 9 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 10 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–622 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya102 Mya622 ka

48 occurrences of Cocculus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

13 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.98°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.99°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WGolden Valley — 46.97°N, 102.08°WGolden Valley — 46.92°N, 102.58°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 102.67°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 45.87°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.85°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOldhaven — 50.78°N, 0.08°EWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°ELiuhe — 32.08°N, 118.75°EXiananshan — 29.15°N, 121.23°E

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The named rock units Cocculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cocculus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Cocculus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

509 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Cocculus, 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 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. 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 Cocculus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Cocculus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Candolle 1817