Paliurus

Paliurus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae. The eight species are native to warm, dry regions of Eurasia and North Africa from Morocco and Spain east to Japan and Taiwan.

Paliurus

Franz Xaver · 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
RhamnaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 57 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 57 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 57 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 57 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 37 of 57 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 57 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 57 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 15 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence83.6 Mya774 ka92 Mya0 Mya

57 occurrences of Paliurus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

57 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

21 formations

Itahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°ELaramie — 44.00°N, 110.00°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°ETokoname — 34.88°N, 136.85°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WOdderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°EJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WFort Union — 49.04°N, 106.58°WDouglas Canyon — 47.45°N, 119.87°WEutaw — 32.41°N, 84.83°WGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ELaoliangdi — 42.48°N, 118.62°E"Upper" — 24.08°N, 117.58°EShuanghe — 27.50°N, 99.83°EXiananshan — 29.15°N, 121.23°EShoudai — 34.84°N, 135.72°E

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The named rock units Paliurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paliurus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Paliurus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

629 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Paliurus, 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

19 references

Each of the 57 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. 7 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 content1

Picture of Paliurus

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

No 3D scan of Paliurus was found in Sketchfab.

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 itRhamnaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1768