Litsea

Litsea is a genus of evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The genus includes a large number of accepted species in tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, Australasia, the western Pacific, and North and Central America.

Litsea

Uncredited · 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 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 37 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences56 Mya2.58 Mya60 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Litsea 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

37 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

15 formations

Okinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°EXiaolongtan — 25.42°N, 102.85°EChangsheling — 23.75°N, 106.92°ENadu — 22.80°N, 108.33°EMiddle — 26.88°N, 88.32°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ENanlin — 25.12°N, 98.83°EShinao — 25.77°N, 104.65°EKimin — 27.08°N, 93.65°EMangbang — 24.69°N, 98.63°ETatrot — 32.06°N, 76.26°ETura — 25.49°N, 90.77°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°E

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The named rock units Litsea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Litsea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Litsea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

570 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Litsea, 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

Each of the 37 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 Litsea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Litsea 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.

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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Lamarck 1792