Pandanus

Pandanus is a genus of monocots with about 578 accepted species. They are palm-like, dioecious trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. Common names include pandan, screw palm and screw pine. The genus is classified in the order Pandanales, family Pandanaceae, and is the largest in the family.

Pandanus

B.navez · 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
pandanPBDB
Sits inside
PandanaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 6 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences83.6 Mya1.8 Mya87 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Pandanus 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

6 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

1 formation

Cutzamala — 19.05°N, 100.70°W

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The named rock units Pandanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pandanus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pandanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pandanus, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 Pandanus

Credit
B.navez
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
tendo1111
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 itPandanaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parkinson 1773