Laurus similis
No picture of Laurus similis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Laurus similis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LaurusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Laurus similis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Laurus similis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Laurus similis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Laurus similis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Betula heteromorpha2 sites
- Poales2 sites
- Quercus simulata2 sites
- Taxodium dubium2 sites
- Acer1 site
- Archaeomnium patens1 site
- Arisaema hesperia1 site
- Betula fairii1 site
- Betula largei1 site
- Bryophyta1 site
- Carpinus1 site
- Carpites magnifica1 site
- Carpites paulownia1 site
- Carpites polygonoides1 site
- Castanea castaneaefolia1 site
- Castanopsis perplexa1 site
- Celastrus fernquisti1 site
- Cercis spokanensis1 site
- Diospyros andersonae1 site
- Diospyros microcalyx1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Ginkgo adiantoides1 site
- Hydrangea bendirei1 site
- Laurus californica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Laurus similis, 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 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Laurus similis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Laurus similis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Laurus similis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itLaurus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knowlton 1900