Ficus mississippiensis

Ficus mississippiensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FicusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ficidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ficidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ficidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 25 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya27.3 Mya41.5 Mya22.5 Mya

27 occurrences of Ficus mississippiensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

27 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

9 formations

Red Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WChickasawhay — 31.30°N, 87.01°WChickasawhay — 31.16°N, 86.80°WChickasawhay — 31.51°N, 87.93°WRiver Bend — 35.11°N, 77.04°WRiver Bend — 35.15°N, 77.14°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.63°N, 85.59°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WMoodys Branch — 31.66°N, 92.90°WByram Marl — 32.32°N, 90.88°W

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The named rock units Ficus mississippiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ficus mississippiensis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Ficus mississippiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Ficus mississippiensis, 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

11 references

Each of the 27 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 content1

Picture of Ficus mississippiensis

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ficus mississippiensis was found in Sketchfab.

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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What may have been alongside itFicus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1848