Eugenia

Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,100 species occur in the New World tropics, especially in the eastern Brazil's northern Andes, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Forest. Other centers of diversity include New Caledonia and Madagascar. Many species in the Old World have received a new classification into the genus Syzygium.

Eugenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyrtaceaePBDB
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 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 41 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 41 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 13 of 41 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 41 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 41 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 41 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

41 occurrences of Eugenia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

41 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

11 formations

Green River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WSan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WWillwood — 44.17°N, 108.55°WTatman — 44.00°N, 109.00°WBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EHarudi — 23.65°N, 68.66°EAckerman — 34.66°N, 89.10°W

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The named rock units Eugenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eugenia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Eugenia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

612 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Eugenia, 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

19 references

Each of the 41 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. 7 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 Eugenia

Credit
nobody named on the record
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

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 itMyrtaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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