Myrica

Myrica is a genus of about 35–50 species of small trees and shrubs in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. The genus has a wide distribution, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America, and missing only from Antarctica and Oceania. Some botanists split the genus into two genera on the basis of the catkin and fruit structure, restricting Myrica to a few species, and treating the others in Morella.

Myrica

Hajotthu · CC BY 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
bayberryPBDB
Sits inside
MyricaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 237 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 237 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 237 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 20 of 237 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 18 of 237 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 152 of 237 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 237 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 237 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 34 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 63 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 27 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 25 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

237 occurrences of Myrica 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

237 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

33 formations

Odderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EOkhonchevayamskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°ETuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WFrontier — 41.60°N, 110.55°WFrontier — 41.79°N, 110.54°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WBlack Creek — 34.31°N, 79.84°WXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ETokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EHaughton — 75.41°N, 89.43°WLondon Clay — 50.93°N, 1.48°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WBovey Tracey Lignite — 50.58°N, 3.68°WLaramie — 39.49°N, 103.88°WUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WHalf Three Point — 62.18°S, 58.97°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°W

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The named rock units Myrica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 173 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myrica and its relatives

Miocene

Where Myrica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,907 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Myrica, 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

58 references

Each of the 237 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. 46 further references are 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 content2

Picture of Myrica

Credit
Hajotthu
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
mglnx
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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 itMyricaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753