Melaleuca
Melaleuca is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles, bottlebrushes or tea-trees. They range in size from small shrubs that rarely grow to more than 1 m high, to trees up to 35 m (115 ft). Their flowers generally occur in groups, forming a "head" or "spike" resembling a brush used for cleaning bottles, containing up to 80 individual flowers.
No machine-readable author provided. Eug assumed (based on copyright claims). · 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- Also called
- honey-myrtlePBDB
- Sits inside
- MyrtaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Melaleuca on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
25 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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.
Melaleuca and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Melaleuca and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
167 taxa- Asteraceae25 sites
- Poaceae25 sites
- Chenopodiaceae24 sites
- Cyperaceae22 sites
- Plantago22 sites
- Acacia21 sites
- Botryococcus21 sites
- Casuarinaceae21 sites
- Corymbia21 sites
- Cunoniaceae21 sites
- Cyathea21 sites
- Dacrycarpus21 sites
- Dacrydium21 sites
- Dicksonia21 sites
- Eucalyptus21 sites
- Gleichenia21 sites
- Goodeniaceae21 sites
- Haloragis21 sites
- Monolete21 sites
- Myrsine21 sites
- Myrtaceae21 sites
- Nothofagus21 sites
- Phyllocladus21 sites
- Podocarpus21 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Melaleuca, 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- Early Pleistocene vegetation change in upland south-eastern Australia21
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany4
Each of the 25 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. 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 content2
Picture of Melaleuca
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- No machine-readable author provided. Eug assumed (based on copyright claims).
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Melaleuca”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMyrtaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1767