Pinus wheeleri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PinusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 42 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
11 occurrences of Pinus wheeleri on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Challis Volcanics Formation3
- Beaverdam Formation1
- Coal Valley Formation1
- Aldrich Station Formation1
- Chloropagus Formation1
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The named rock units Pinus wheeleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pinus wheeleri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pinus wheeleri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
231 taxa- Mahonia6 sites
- Picea6 sites
- Quercus6 sites
- Pinus florissanti5 sites
- Typha lesquereuxi5 sites
- Abies concoloroides4 sites
- Cedrela4 sites
- Cercocarpus4 sites
- Chamaecyparis4 sites
- Juniperus4 sites
- Populus4 sites
- Ptelea4 sites
- Quercus simulata4 sites
- Rosa hilliae4 sites
- Salix4 sites
- Sequoia affinis4 sites
- Thuja4 sites
- Zelkova4 sites
- Abies3 sites
- Acer glabroides3 sites
- Alnus3 sites
- Amelanchier3 sites
- Astronium3 sites
- Carya3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pinus wheeleri, 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
6 references- The Eocene Germer Basin Flora of South-Central Idaho3
- Fossil Plants of the Tertiary Beaverhead Basins in Southwestern Montana3
- Mio-Pliocene floras from west-central Nevada2
- The Miocene Trapper Creek Flora of Southern Idaho1
- A Pliocene sequoiadendron forest from western Nevada1
- Fossil Plants of the Florissant Beds of Colorado1
Each of the 11 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 Pinus wheeleri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPinus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cockerell 1908