Phyllocladus

Phyllocladus, the celery pines, is a small genus of conifers, now usually placed in the family Podocarpaceae. Species occur mainly in New Zealand, Tasmania, and Malesia in the Southern Hemisphere, though P. hypophyllus ranges into the Philippines, a short way north of the equator.

Phyllocladus

Andy king50 · 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
PodocarpaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 26 of 38 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences66 Mya2.58 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Phyllocladus on record. 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

38 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

Half Three Point — 62.15°S, 58.73°WHalf Three Point — 62.18°S, 58.97°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°E

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The named rock units Phyllocladus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

472 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Phyllocladus, 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

9 references

Each of the 38 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 Phyllocladus

Credit
Andy king50
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phyllocladus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Richard and Mirbel 1825