Croton

Croton is an extensive plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton, but the latter also refers to Codiaeum variegatum. The generic name comes from the Greek κρότος, which means "tick" and refers to the shape of the seeds of certain species.

Croton

Stan Shebs · 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
rushfoilPBDB
Sits inside
EuphorbiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 11 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.5–1.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences33.9 Mya1.8 Mya37.7 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Croton on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

11 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

5 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.85°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EElandsfontyn — 33.97°S, 18.12°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EHaridwar — 30.04°N, 78.15°EKimin — 27.08°N, 93.65°E

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The named rock units Croton 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.

Croton and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Croton and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Croton, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 content2

Picture of Croton

Credit
Stan Shebs
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
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 itEuphorbiaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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