Diospyros

Diospyros

J.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
EbenaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 73 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 73 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 73 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 73 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 73 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 12 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences93.9 Mya2.58 Mya115 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Diospyros 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

73 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

29 formations

Black Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 33.88°N, 81.02°WBlack Creek — 33.53°N, 81.83°WBlack Creek — 33.71°N, 81.78°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°ETemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WFort Union — 47.32°N, 106.92°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WLusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EDunvegan — 55.63°N, 121.72°WLaramie — 44.00°N, 110.00°WBagshot — 50.72°N, 2.00°WEvanston — 41.33°N, 111.00°WPirabas — 1.21°S, 47.16°WYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EHaridwar — 30.04°N, 78.15°E

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The named rock units Diospyros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diospyros and its relatives

Miocene

Where Diospyros and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,503 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Diospyros, 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

31 references

Each of the 73 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. 19 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 content2

Picture of Diospyros

Credit
J.M.Garg
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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