Cupressus

Cupressus is one of several genera of evergreen conifers within the family Cupressaceae; for the others, see cypress. It is considered a polyphyletic group. Based on genetic and morphological analysis, the genus Cupressus is found in the subfamily Cupressoideae. The common name "cypress" comes via the Old French cipres from the Latin cyparissus, which is the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος (kypárissos). The name derives from Cyparissus, a mythological figure who was turned into a tree after killing a stag.

Cupressus

Chneophytou · 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
CupressoideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 161 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 15 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences161.5 Mya129 ka172 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Cupressus 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

15 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

6 formations

Nesterov Suite — 50.10°N, 24.30°EDisaster Peak — 38.50°N, 120.00°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WWuyun — 49.28°N, 129.67°ETumenzi — 43.32°N, 128.16°EShuanghe — 27.50°N, 99.83°E

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The named rock units Cupressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupressus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cupressus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

311 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cupressus, 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

Each of the 15 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 Cupressus

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

3D model

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

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

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 itCupressoideae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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