Parrotia

Parrotia is a genus of flowering plants in the witch hazel family, Hamamelidaceae. It includes two species native to Asia.Parrotia persica (DC.) C.A.Mey. – Iran and Transcaucasus Parrotia subaequalis (Hung T.Chang) R.M.Hao & H.T.Wei – southeastern China

Parrotia

Bärbel Miemietz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
ironwoodPBDB
Sits inside
HamamelidaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 17 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences37.71 Mya774 ka49 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Parrotia 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

17 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

4 formations

John Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°E

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The named rock units Parrotia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parrotia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Parrotia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Parrotia, 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

8 references

Each of the 17 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 Parrotia

Credit
Bärbel Miemietz
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parrotia 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. Meyer 1831