Cupressales

Cupressales is one of two orders of conifers within the subclass Cupressidae. It comprises three or four families:Sciadopityaceae Cupressaceae Taxaceae Cephalotaxaceae

Cupressales

Walter Siegmund (talk) · 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
Sits inside
PinidaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 271 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 391 occurrencesPermian — about 12 of 391 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 17 of 391 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 391 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 391 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 391 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 391 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 391 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 143 of 391 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 120 of 391 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 391 occurrencesEocene — about 38 of 391 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 391 occurrencesMiocene — about 30 of 391 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 391 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 391 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences264–254 Mya — about 6 occurrences254–244 Mya — about 18 occurrences244–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences203–193 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence183–173 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences173–163 Mya — about 7 occurrences163–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–132 Mya — about 9 occurrences132–122 Mya — about 21 occurrences122–112 Mya — about 42 occurrences112–102 Mya — about 63 occurrences102–91 Mya — about 94 occurrences91–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–61 Mya — about 31 occurrences61–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–41 Mya — about 23 occurrences41–30 Mya — about 13 occurrences30–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–10 Mya — about 23 occurrences10–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences274.4 Mya2.58 Mya305 Mya0 Mya

391 occurrences of Cupressales on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

391 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

63 formations

Bima — 12.08°N, 13.14°EBentiu — 11.03°N, 27.74°EKharita — 29.00°N, 29.00°EKharita — 29.86°N, 28.74°EAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°EBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°EFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WBahariya — 30.99°N, 27.77°EBahariya — 29.00°N, 29.00°EBahariya — 29.86°N, 28.74°EHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WTambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°EKurnub Sandstone — 32.00°N, 35.76°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EAlamein — 29.00°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.00°N, 28.50°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°EAbu Roash — 30.99°N, 27.77°EAbu Roash — 29.00°N, 29.00°EChenque — 45.86°S, 67.58°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WRaritan — 40.56°N, 74.29°WRaritan — 40.00°N, 74.00°WKerrikerri — 12.08°N, 13.14°EZarga-Ghazal — 9.35°N, 29.13°EBentiu — 9.35°N, 29.13°ECalcaires à Stipites — 44.18°N, 3.22°EToad/Grayling — 56.23°N, 117.28°WGrès, argiles et lignites supérieurs — 38.73°N, 9.43°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°E

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The named rock units Cupressales has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 147 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupressales and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cupressales and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,516 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 275 sites for Cupressales, and this reads 240 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

71 references

Each of the 391 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. 59 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 content1

Picture of Cupressales

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Walter Siegmund (talk)
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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cupressales 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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