Pittosporum

Pittosporum is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae. Plants in the genus Pittosporum are shrubs or trees with leaves arranged alternately along the stems. The flowers are arranged singly or in cymes, with white to yellow petals fused at the base forming a short tube, with stamens that are free from each other. The fruit is a capsule with a single locule that opens to reveal angular seeds.

Pittosporum

A. Barra · 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
Also called
cheesewoodPBDB
Sits inside
PittosporaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 8 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences33.9 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Pittosporum 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

8 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

5 formations

Okinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°E

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The named rock units Pittosporum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

282 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pittosporum, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 Pittosporum

Credit
A. Barra
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pittosporum 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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What may have been alongside itPittosporaceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Banks 1788