Ficus uncata
Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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 most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ficus uncata on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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 uncata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ficus uncata and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Ficus uncata and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Laurophyllum caudatum2 sites
- Magnolia magnifolia2 sites
- Apocynophyllum1 site
- Cissus marginata1 site
- Ficus (Ficus)1 site
- Ficus planicostata1 site
- Juglans1 site
- Prunus coloradensis1 site
- Sabal1 site
- Sabal grayana1 site
- Staphylea1 site
- Vitis olriki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ficus uncata, 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 3 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 uncata
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesquereux 1872