Picea

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of some 37 species of coniferous trees in the pine family, Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Picea is treated either in the subfamily Pinoideae, or the sole genus in its own subfamily Piceoideae.

Picea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
sprucePBDB
Sits inside
PinoideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 346 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 346 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 346 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 346 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 346 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 346 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 346 occurrencesMiocene — about 88 of 346 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 33 of 346 occurrencesPleistocene — about 187 of 346 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 13 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 14 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 44 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 27 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 231 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

346 occurrences of Picea 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

346 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

39 formations

Chloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WChloropagus — 39.79°N, 118.94°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WAldrich Station — 38.49°N, 118.90°WBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.70°WMula — 29.10°N, 100.67°EBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WAluginskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°ESanying — 26.42°N, 99.40°ESanying — 26.02°N, 100.00°EMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EHaughton — 75.41°N, 89.43°WSt. Mary River — 49.92°N, 112.99°WPyramid — 39.90°N, 119.55°WChallis Volcanics — 44.36°N, 114.22°WDesert Peak — 39.39°N, 118.97°WSalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EMoskovoretskaya — 55.20°N, 38.78°EShimonopporo — 42.81°N, 141.54°E

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The named rock units Picea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 270 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Picea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Picea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,657 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 267 sites for Picea, and this reads 240 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

73 references

Each of the 346 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. 61 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 Picea

Credit
The original uploader was MPF at English Wikipedia .
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Dietrich 1824