Keteleeria
Keteleeria is a genus of three species of coniferous trees in the pine family, Pinaceae, first described as a genus in 1866.

Eric in SF · 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- Sits inside
- AbietoideaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
22 occurrences of Keteleeria on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
22 occurrences- Eocene15%
- Oligocene22%
- Miocene44%
- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene9%
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
9 formations
- Ogawa Formation2
- Xiananshan Formation2
- Nagaiwa Formation1
- Temblor Formation1
- Buchanan Lake Formation · Eureka Sound Group1
- Akeyo Formation · Mizunami Group1
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The named rock units Keteleeria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Keteleeria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Keteleeria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
410 taxa- Alnus8 sites
- Pinus8 sites
- Quercus8 sites
- Carpinus7 sites
- Betula6 sites
- Picea6 sites
- Acer5 sites
- Salix5 sites
- Ulmus5 sites
- Zelkova ungeri5 sites
- Carya4 sites
- Castanea4 sites
- Corylus4 sites
- Ficus4 sites
- Lindera4 sites
- Liquidambar4 sites
- Phragmites4 sites
- Pseudolarix4 sites
- Pterocarya4 sites
- Quercus protosalicina4 sites
- Rhus4 sites
- Ailanthus3 sites
- Bambusites3 sites
- Buxus protojaponica3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Keteleeria, 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
13 references- Die oberoligozanen Floren am Nordrand der Sachsischen Lausitz4
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China4
- Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan3
- Le gisement pleistocene de Morgadinho, en Algarve2
- A late Eocene wood assemblage from the Crooked River Basin, Oregon, USA1
- Niche evolution versus niche conservatism and habitat loss determine persistence and extirpation in late Neogene European Fagaceae1
- A Dendroctonus bark engraving (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) from a middle Eocene Larix (Coniferales: Pinaceae): early or delayed colonization?1
- Paleoecology of a Miocene, tropical, upland fauna: Lufeng, China1
- Fossil macrospores and massulae of Salvinia natans from the Pliocene and the Quaternary sediments in the Kinki and Tokai districts, Japan1
- Miocene floras of the Pacific side of central Japan (I) Inkyoyama flora1
- The Miocene Temblor Flora of West Central California1
- Miocenska Flora ze Starych Gliwic na Slasku (Miocene Flora of Stare Gliwice in Upper Silesia)1
Each of the 22 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. 1 further reference is 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 Keteleeria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Eric in SF
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Keteleeria 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Keteleeria”
- 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 itAbietoideae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carrière 1866