Coniferae

Coniferae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 286 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 12.75 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 11.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 17 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 17 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 17 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 17 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 17 occurrences310–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–259 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences259–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–157 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences157–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–137 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences127–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–5.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence298.9 Mya12.75 Mya310 Mya5 Mya

17 occurrences of Coniferae 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

17 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

8 formations

Eagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°WRaniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°ERaniganj — 23.69°N, 87.05°ELa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.66°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WUpper Dzhaskoi Suite — 62.10°N, 135.80°EMiddle Talyndzhak Suite — 51.60°N, 133.30°EElrhaz — 16.47°N, 9.17°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°E

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The named rock units Coniferae 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.

Coniferae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Coniferae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

634 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Coniferae, 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

13 references

Each of the 17 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Coniferae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 Jussieu)