Cornus

Cornus is a genus of about 30–60 species of woody plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods or cornels, which can generally be distinguished by their blossoms, berries, and distinctive bark. Most are deciduous trees or shrubs, but a few species are nearly herbaceous perennial subshrubs, and some species are evergreen. Several species have small heads of inconspicuous flowers surrounded by an involucre of large, typically white petal-like bracts, while others have more open clusters of petal-bearing flowers. The various species of dogwood are native throughout much of temperate and boreal Eurasia and North America, with China, Japan, and the southeastern United States being particularly rich in native species. The genus is also known from South America with members such as Cornus peruviana.

Cornus

Frank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
Also called
dogwoodPBDB
Sits inside
CornaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 134 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 38 of 134 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 20 of 134 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 134 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 40 of 134 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 134 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 134 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 7 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 19 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 8 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences66 Mya129 ka74 Mya0 Mya

134 occurrences of Cornus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

134 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

28 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.91°N, 101.44°WFort Union — 42.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 109.26°WFort Union — 41.52°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 41.17°N, 108.89°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.82°WFort Union — 44.77°N, 107.13°WFort Union — 48.08°N, 105.63°WFort Union — 43.03°N, 106.98°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 110.67°WFort Union — 47.72°N, 104.15°WFort Union — 41.28°N, 109.19°WFort Union — 41.71°N, 108.62°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 52.02°N, 1.43°ELondon Clay — 51.45°N, 0.13°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.75°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.57°N, 119.63°WGolden Valley — 46.88°N, 102.78°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WAkima — 36.00°N, 139.00°EBagshot — 50.72°N, 2.00°WMiddle Park — 40.07°N, 106.10°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ETullock — 45.45°N, 105.40°WFox Hills — 46.53°N, 100.47°WChifeng — 44.00°N, 117.00°E

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The named rock units Cornus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 57 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cornus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cornus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

929 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Cornus, 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

41 references

Each of the 134 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. 29 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 Cornus

Credit
Frank Vincentz
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cornus multilocularis · RBINS-Scientific Heritage:b:10002

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
smice
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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 itCornaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753