Ginkgo

Ginkgo is a genus of non-flowering seed plants, assigned to the gymnosperms. The scientific name is also used as the English common name. The order to which the genus belongs, Ginkgoales, first appeared in the Permian, 270 million years ago, and Ginkgo is now the only living genus within the order. The rate of evolution within the genus has been slow, and almost all its species had become extinct by the end of the Pliocene. The sole surviving species, Ginkgo biloba, is found in the wild only in China, but is cultivated around the world. The relationships between ginkgos and other groups of plants are not fully resolved.

Ginkgo

EecherplazGinkgo06.jpg : Cayambe derivative work: Ginkgotree ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
ginkgoPBDB
Sits inside
GinkgoaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 248 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 774 ka.

Permian — about 0 of 616 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 616 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 616 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 23 of 616 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 147 of 616 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 210 of 616 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 100 of 616 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 55 of 616 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 616 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 21 of 616 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 616 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 616 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 616 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 616 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 616 occurrences257–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–240 Mya — about 3 occurrences240–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–223 Mya — about 5 occurrences223–214 Mya — about 7 occurrences214–206 Mya — about 7 occurrences206–197 Mya — about 31 occurrences197–188 Mya — about 45 occurrences188–180 Mya — about 46 occurrences180–171 Mya — about 91 occurrences171–163 Mya — about 140 occurrences163–154 Mya — about 39 occurrences154–146 Mya — about 53 occurrences146–137 Mya — about 23 occurrences137–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–120 Mya — about 11 occurrences120–111 Mya — about 12 occurrences111–103 Mya — about 18 occurrences103–94 Mya — about 14 occurrences94–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 18 occurrences60–51 Mya — about 17 occurrences51–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences250.8 Mya2.58 Mya257 Mya0 Mya

616 occurrences of Ginkgo on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

616 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

214 formations

Corwin — 68.84°N, 163.16°WCorwin — 68.82°N, 162.18°WCorwin — 68.94°N, 162.98°WCorwin — 68.95°N, 162.95°WCorwin — 69.10°N, 162.89°WCorwin — 69.09°N, 162.84°WCorwin — 69.33°N, 162.56°WCorwin — 69.34°N, 162.41°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.77°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 108.05°WFort Union — 44.16°N, 107.85°WFort Union — 46.91°N, 101.44°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 43.03°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 43.05°N, 106.98°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 110.67°WFort Union — 46.71°N, 103.60°WOzhogino Suite — 66.40°N, 149.50°EOzhogino Suite — 66.10°N, 148.90°EOzhogino Suite — 65.60°N, 149.40°EErbek Suite — 51.50°N, 95.50°EErbek Suite — 51.60°N, 94.20°EKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EHell Creek — 46.15°N, 103.81°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.88°WHell Creek — 46.15°N, 103.82°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.40°N, 103.95°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WChusovitino Suite — 54.50°N, 87.00°EChusovitino Suite — 54.80°N, 86.30°EChusovitino Suite — 54.50°N, 86.80°EBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.50°N, 78.70°EBasal and coal-bearing Suite — 42.60°N, 79.00°EUpper Osinniki Suite — 54.50°N, 87.20°EUpper Osinniki Suite — 54.50°N, 86.80°EUpper Osinniki Suite — 54.60°N, 86.60°EBalabansai — 40.80°N, 73.40°EBalabansai — 40.00°N, 70.50°ESaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WBerge Suite — 63.80°N, 127.40°EBerge Suite — 64.50°N, 125.80°EBerge Suite — 64.90°N, 124.60°EBerge Suite — 63.50°N, 118.80°EUpper Korkino Suite — 54.80°N, 61.80°EAngren Suite — 41.00°N, 70.20°EAngren Suite — 40.90°N, 71.00°EWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.19°WLower Saltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WKamala Suite — 55.80°N, 94.90°EKamala Suite — 55.70°N, 94.70°EDep Suite — 52.90°N, 127.70°EGabirut and Dzhizhikrut Suites — 39.20°N, 68.60°EOr' Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°EUpper Dep Suite — 52.90°N, 127.60°EUst'-Balei Suite — 52.60°N, 104.00°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°E

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The named rock units Ginkgo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 190 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 93 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ginkgo and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Ginkgo and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

685 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 379 sites for Ginkgo, and this reads 240 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

154 references

Each of the 616 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. 142 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 Ginkgo

Credit
EecherplazGinkgo06.jpg : Cayambe derivative work: Ginkgotree ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1771