Nypa

Nypa

Qaalvin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
ArecaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 50 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 50 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 50 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 41 of 50 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 50 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 50 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 14 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 13 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Nypa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

50 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

12 formations

London Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.75°WLondon Clay — 51.78°N, 1.17°ELondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°ENanjemoy — 38.41°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°EJbel Ta'Louit — 31.50°N, 6.61°WCakeham A — 50.77°N, 0.90°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.17°WTikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°ETura — 25.54°N, 90.58°E

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The named rock units Nypa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nypa and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nypa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Nypa, 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

24 references

Each of the 50 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. 12 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 Nypa

Credit
Qaalvin
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Nypa fruticans · ftg:84164

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

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What may have been alongside itArecaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. van Wurmb 1779