Magnolia leei
Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
- MagnoliaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Magnolia leei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Rockdale Formation · Wilcox Group1
- Ackerman Formation · Wilcox Group1
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The named rock units Magnolia leei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Magnolia leei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Magnolia leei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Nectandra lancifolia2 sites
- Oreodaphne obtusifolia2 sites
- Terminalia2 sites
- Annona1 site
- Apocynophyllum1 site
- Artocarpus lessigiana1 site
- Asimina leiocarpa1 site
- Asplenium hurleyensis1 site
- Bumelia hurleyensis1 site
- Bumelia pseudotenax1 site
- Carpolithus1 site
- Cissus1 site
- Combretum1 site
- Combretum ovalis1 site
- Cordia lowii1 site
- Cupanites1 site
- Dillenites1 site
- Dillenites microdentatus1 site
- Dillenites ovatus1 site
- Dillenites texensis1 site
- Dryophyllum1 site
- Dryophyllum moorii1 site
- Eugenia hilgardiana1 site
- Euonymus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Magnolia leei, 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
2 references- A new paratropical angiosperm florule in the Eocene Rockdale Formation of Bastrop County, Texas1
- The Lower Eocene floras of Southeastern North America1
Each of the 2 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
Media content1
Picture of Magnolia leei
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Magnolia leei was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMagnolia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knowlton 1916