Elaeocarpus

Elaeocarpus is a genus of nearly five hundred species of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae native to the western Indian Ocean, tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific. Plants in the genus are trees or shrubs with simple leaves, flowers with four or five petals, and usually blue fruit.

Elaeocarpus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElaeocarpaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 47 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 38 of 47 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 41 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Elaeocarpus 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

47 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

4 formations

Yallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EZamek — 62.19°S, 58.45°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°E

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The named rock units Elaeocarpus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elaeocarpus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Elaeocarpus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

736 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Elaeocarpus, 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

9 references

Each of the 47 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 Elaeocarpus

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

3D model

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

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 itElaeocarpaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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