Ficus sycomorus
Ficus sycomorus, called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry, sycamore, or sycomore, is a fig species that has been cultivated since ancient times.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FicusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ficus sycomorus 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ficus sycomorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ficus sycomorus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ficus sycomorus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- alexandrinus alexandrinus1 site
- angustus angustus1 site
- Arundo1 site
- Bos taurus1 site
- Capra aegagrus1 site
- Celtis1 site
- clessiana clessiana1 site
- ehrenbergi ehrenbergi1 site
- Equus asinus1 site
- Ficus ingens1 site
- Ficus salicifolia1 site
- forskalii forskalii1 site
- Gazella dorcas1 site
- Hyaena hyaena1 site
- Natalensis natalensis1 site
- Ovis ammon1 site
- Phoenix1 site
- stagnalis stagnalis1 site
- truncatus truncatus1 site
- tuberculata tuberculata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ficus sycomorus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 sycomorus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Atamari
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ficus sycomorus 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.
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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753