Laurus

Laurus is a genus of evergreen trees or shrubs belonging to the laurel family. The genus contains three or more species, including the bay laurel or sweet bay, L. nobilis, widely cultivated as an ornamental plant and a culinary herb.

Laurus

Frank Vincentz · 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
LauraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 62 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 62 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 62 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 21 of 62 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 62 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 62 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 62 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 62 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences100.5 Mya2.58 Mya108 Mya0 Mya

62 occurrences of Laurus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

62 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

20 formations

Sepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WLatah — 47.75°N, 117.55°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WLatah — 47.65°N, 117.21°WLatah — 47.56°N, 117.22°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 45.30°N, 108.92°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 107.17°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 41.34°N, 109.21°WLamar River — 44.00°N, 110.00°WRaton — 36.95°N, 104.33°WRaton — 37.00°N, 104.48°WAspen Shale — 42.09°N, 110.51°WEvanston — 41.33°N, 111.00°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.53°N, 81.83°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WLance — 49.04°N, 106.58°WNacimiento — 36.79°N, 104.87°WCoalmont — 40.88°N, 106.34°WDawson arkose — 39.02°N, 104.27°WAnimas — 37.03°N, 107.20°WFort Union? — 43.02°N, 106.09°WDouglas Canyon — 47.45°N, 119.87°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°EMidway — 29.26°N, 98.49°WEutaw — 32.88°N, 87.59°W

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The named rock units Laurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Laurus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Laurus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

805 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Laurus, 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

18 references

Each of the 62 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. 6 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 content3

Picture of Laurus

Credit
Frank Vincentz
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
"Laurus" macrocarpa · UF:Paleobotany:53142

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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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What may have been alongside itLauraceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753