Glyptostrobus

Glyptostrobus is a small genus of conifers in the family Cupressaceae. The sole living species, Glyptostrobus pensilis, is native to subtropical southeastern China, from Fujian west to southeast Yunnan, and also very locally in northern Vietnam and Bolikhamsai province of eastern Laos near the Vietnam border.

Glyptostrobus

Michael Becker · 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
Chinese swamp cypressPBDB
Sits inside
TaxodioideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 24 of 321 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 108 of 321 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 66 of 321 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 321 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 94 of 321 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 321 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 321 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 20 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 22 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 15 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 65 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 32 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 10 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 38 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 21 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences72.2 Mya2.58 Mya92 Mya0 Mya

321 occurrences of Glyptostrobus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

321 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

37 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.03°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 44.21°N, 107.90°WFort Union — 44.27°N, 107.97°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 103.81°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.97°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 109.26°WFort Union — 41.52°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 41.17°N, 108.92°WFort Union — 41.14°N, 109.06°WFort Union — 41.46°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 46.44°N, 104.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.22°N, 108.40°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 44.15°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 43.90°N, 107.52°WFort Union — 43.47°N, 108.68°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 40.59°N, 107.69°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 110.67°WFort Union — 47.72°N, 104.15°WFort Union — 45.88°N, 104.55°WFort Union — 45.91°N, 106.22°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 108.08°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 106.20°WFort Union — 46.88°N, 104.93°WFort Union — 48.18°N, 110.12°WFort Union — 48.99°N, 105.27°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 104.70°WFort Union — 45.47°N, 103.21°WFort Union — 47.97°N, 102.55°WFort Union — 47.90°N, 102.82°WFort Union — 46.37°N, 102.33°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.17°N, 108.56°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.18°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.14°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.28°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.09°WGolden Valley — 45.50°N, 103.25°WGolden Valley — 46.98°N, 102.05°WGolden Valley — 47.31°N, 102.11°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 102.67°WGolden Valley — 47.82°N, 102.77°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.13°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 45.39°N, 103.94°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EEagle — 44.99°N, 108.87°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 108.00°WTullock — 47.14°N, 107.33°WTullock — 45.45°N, 105.40°WTullock — 45.37°N, 105.54°WTullock — 39.49°N, 74.84°WPaskapoo — 54.33°N, 118.75°WPaskapoo — 54.79°N, 115.51°WOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOgawa — 36.50°N, 138.00°EWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°EShulan — 44.33°N, 127.00°EAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WAllenby — 49.22°N, 119.96°WWillwood Formatin — 44.35°N, 108.07°WChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°ETokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°ESt. Mary River — 49.92°N, 112.99°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WProtection — 49.00°N, 124.00°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WMiddle Park — 40.07°N, 106.10°WDawson Arkose — 38.93°N, 104.60°W

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The named rock units Glyptostrobus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 118 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glyptostrobus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Glyptostrobus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

842 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 207 sites for Glyptostrobus, 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

41 references

Each of the 321 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. 29 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 content1

Picture of Glyptostrobus

Credit
Michael Becker
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Glyptostrobus 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

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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. (Endlicher 1847)