Magnolia rotundifolia

A picture published with the record for Magnolia rotundifolia. What it shows has not been checked.

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 least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya66 Mya101.4 Mya55.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Magnolia rotundifolia 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

2 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

2 formations

Dunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WRaton — 37.10°N, 107.05°W

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The named rock units Magnolia rotundifolia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Magnolia rotundifolia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Magnolia rotundifolia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Magnolia rotundifolia, 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

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 rotundifolia

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newberry 1882