Craigia
Craigia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae sensu lato or Tiliaceae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
13 occurrences of Craigia on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
13 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 Craigia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Craigia and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Craigia and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
357 taxa- Acer4 sites
- Alnus3 sites
- Carya3 sites
- Hydrangea3 sites
- Platanus3 sites
- Ulmus3 sites
- Ailanthus2 sites
- Catalpa2 sites
- Cinnamomophyllum2 sites
- Cornus2 sites
- Cruciptera2 sites
- Decodon2 sites
- Engelhardia2 sites
- Fagus2 sites
- Koelreuteria2 sites
- Mahonia2 sites
- Palaeocarya2 sites
- Pinus2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
- Rhus2 sites
- ? Calamoideae indet.1 site
- Abadzekhia1 site
- Abadzekhia tarletskovi1 site
- Abies1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Craigia, 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
8 references- The Oligocene Bridge Creek flora of the John Day Formation, Oregon6
- The Rauenberg fossil Lagerstätte (Baden-Württemberg, Germany): A window into early Oligocene marine and coastal ecosystems of Central Europe1
- Systematic descriptions, in First occurrence of Cedrelospermum (Ulmaceae) in Asia and its biogeographic implications1
- Middle Eocene flora of Huadian, Jilin Province, Northeastern China1
- Late Eocene fossil plants of the John Day Formation, Wheeler County, Oregon1
- The Oligocene Haynes Creek Flora of Eastern Idaho1
- The Oligocene Volcanic Flora of Kundratice near Litomerice, Ceske Stredohori Volcanic Complex (Czech Republic) - A review1
- Die oberoligozanen Floren am Nordrand der Sachsischen Lausitz1
Each of the 13 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 Craigia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kevmin
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Craigia 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Craigia”
- 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 itPlantae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith and Evans 1921