Ficus crassipes

Ficus crassipes, commonly known as the round-leaved banana fig is a fig that is endemic to the wet tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It has large brownish cylindrical syconia.

Ficus crassipes

J.W. Wrigley · CC BY 4.0 · 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
FicusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100.5 Mya83.6 Mya145 Mya71 Mya

6 occurrences of Ficus crassipes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

6 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

3 formations

Black Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 33.88°N, 81.02°WBlack Creek — 34.30°N, 79.74°WEutaw — 32.25°N, 84.90°WTuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°W

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The named rock units Ficus crassipes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ficus crassipes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ficus crassipes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ficus crassipes, 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

2 references

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ficus crassipes

Credit
J.W. Wrigley
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itFicus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heer 1874)