Illicium
No picture of Illicium was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Illicium itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Illicium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MagnoliaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 66 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
9 occurrences of Illicium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
9 occurrences- Late Cretaceous11%
- Eocene11%
- Oligocene11%
- Miocene41%
- Pliocene26%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Illicium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Illicium and its relatives
MioceneWhere Illicium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Cinnamomum2 sites
- Mallotus2 sites
- Phragmites2 sites
- Pseudolarix2 sites
- Quercus2 sites
- Symplocos2 sites
- Zelkova ungeri2 sites
- Acer1 site
- Acer trilobatum1 site
- Alnus1 site
- Andromeda grandifolia1 site
- Andromeda parlatorii1 site
- Aphananthe1 site
- Arundo groenlandica1 site
- Asplenium1 site
- Bambusites1 site
- Berchemia1 site
- Betula1 site
- Brasenia purpurea1 site
- Buxus1 site
- Buxus protojaponica1 site
- Camellia japonica1 site
- Carex1 site
- Carex clarkii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Illicium, 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
7 references- Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan2
- Allochthonous seed and fruit floras from the Pliocene of the Lower Rhine Basin2
- Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie1
- Re-Evaluation of the age of the Brandon lignite (Vermont, USA) based on plant megafossils1
- Die Floren des Haselbacher Serie im Weisselster-Becken (Bezirk Leipzig, DDR)1
- The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia1
- Report on Phyto-Palaeontological Investigations of the Fossil Flora of Sheppey1
Each of the 9 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. 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No picture of Illicium was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Illicium itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Illicium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMagnoliaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1759