Pieris

Pieris is a genus of seven species of shrubs in the flowering plant family Ericaceae, native to mountain regions of eastern and southern Asia, eastern North America and Cuba. Known commonly in North America as andromedas or fetterbushes, they are broad-leaved evergreen shrubs growing to 1–6 metres (3–20 ft) tall and 0.9–3.0 m (3–10 ft) wide. The leaves are spirally arranged, often appearing to be in whorls at the end of each shoot with bare stretches of shoot below; they are lanceolate-ovate, 2–10 cm (1–4 in) long and 1.0–3.5 cm broad, leathery textured, and with an entire or serrated margin. The young leaves in spring are typically brightly coloured. The flowers, which may have a very appealing honey scent, are bell-shaped, 5–15 mm long, white or pink, and arranged in racemes 5–12 cm long. The fruit is a woody capsule which splits into five sections to release the numerous small seeds.

Pieris

First Light ( talk ) · CC BY 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
EricaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At most 8.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 3.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Miocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePliocene12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.8–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–7.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.1 Mya3.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Pieris 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

1 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

Tokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°E

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The named rock units Pieris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pieris and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pieris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pieris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Pieris

Credit
First Light ( talk )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pieris napi · su:ins

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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What may have been alongside itEricaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Don 1834