Ocotea

Ocotea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. Many are evergreen trees with lauroid leaves.

Ocotea

G.-U. Tolkiehn · 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
Sits inside
LauraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Paleocene — about 24 of 34 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 34 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 34 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 34 occurrencesMiocene60–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 13 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–8.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.0–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56 Mya13.82 Mya60 Mya6 Mya

34 occurrences of Ocotea on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

34 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

3 formations

Fort Union — 41.51°N, 108.65°WFort Union — 41.33°N, 109.24°WFort Union — 41.59°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 41.16°N, 108.92°WFort Union — 41.14°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.46°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 41.57°N, 108.58°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WChangchang — 20.00°N, 110.50°E

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The named rock units Ocotea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

145 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Ocotea, 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

7 references

Each of the 34 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 content1

Picture of Ocotea

Credit
G.-U. Tolkiehn
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ocotea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aublet 1775