Guaiacum sanctum
Guaiacum sanctum, commonly known as holywood, lignum vitae or holywood lignum-vitae, is a species of flowering plant in the creosote bush family, Zygophyllaceae. It is native to the Neotropical realm, from Mexico through Central America, Florida in the United States, the Caribbean, and northern South America. It has been introduced to other tropical areas of the world. It is currently threatened by habitat loss in its native region, and as such, is currently rated near threatened on the IUCN Red List. Guaiacum sanctum is the national tree of the Bahamas.
KATHERINE WAGNER-REISS · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- Sits inside
- GuaiacumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Guaiacum sanctum on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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- Holocene100%
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.
Guaiacum sanctum and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Guaiacum sanctum and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Abutilon1 site
- Accipiter1 site
- Acrostichum1 site
- Anacardiaceae1 site
- Annona1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Asteraceae1 site
- Bacopa1 site
- Bursera1 site
- Calliandra cf. haematomma1 site
- Caracara creightoni1 site
- Ceratopteris1 site
- cf. Pityrogramma sp.1 site
- Chelonoidis alburyorum1 site
- Crocodylus rhombifer1 site
- Cycadaceae1 site
- Dictyosporites1 site
- Eudocimus albus1 site
- Eugenia1 site
- Fabaceae1 site
- Fusiformisporites1 site
- Geocapromys1 site
- Geotrygon chrysia1 site
- Hibiscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Guaiacum sanctum, 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
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 Guaiacum sanctum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- KATHERINE WAGNER-REISS
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Guaiacum sanctum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGuaiacum through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753