Liriodendron giganteum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiriodendronPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Liriodendron giganteum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Dunvegan Formation5
- Extension Formation · Nanaimo Group1
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The named rock units Liriodendron giganteum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liriodendron giganteum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Liriodendron giganteum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Leguminosites2 sites
- Allantodiopsis erosa1 site
- Cladophlebis1 site
- Cladophlebis columbiana1 site
- Combretum1 site
- Dammarites1 site
- Dryophyllum gracile1 site
- Ficus daphnogenoides1 site
- Geonomites1 site
- Magnolia hollicki1 site
- Magnolia lacoeana1 site
- Nilsonia1 site
- Platanus1 site
- Platanus newberryana1 site
- Protophyllocladus1 site
- Rhamnites1 site
- Sphenopteris1 site
- Ternstroemites1 site
- Trochodendroides1 site
- Zizyphus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Liriodendron giganteum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Upper Cretaceous floras of the Dunvegan, Bad Heart, and Milk River Formations of Western Canada5
- Flora of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island, British Columbia1
Each of the 6 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 Liriodendron giganteum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Liriodendron giganteum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Liriodendron giganteum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLiriodendron through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesquereux 1868