Platanus

Platanus is a genus consisting of a small number of tree species. They are the sole living members of the family Platanaceae.

Platanus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
plane treePBDB
Sits inside
PlatanaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 338 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 338 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 63 of 338 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 116 of 338 occurrencesEocene — about 83 of 338 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 338 occurrencesMiocene — about 35 of 338 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 338 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 338 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 8 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 8 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 8 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 8 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 17 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 60 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 40 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 44 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 24 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 15 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 16 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 14 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 11 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences100.5 Mya129 ka146 Mya0 Mya

338 occurrences of Platanus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

338 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

72 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 108.05°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.47°N, 103.84°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 103.81°WFort Union — 46.32°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 46.39°N, 103.96°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.97°WFort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.15°N, 103.81°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.92°N, 103.52°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 41.63°N, 107.55°WFort Union — 42.80°N, 105.48°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 44.93°N, 106.95°WFort Union — 45.02°N, 106.87°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 46.17°N, 108.43°WFort Union — 48.40°N, 109.27°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 108.08°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 40.52°N, 107.55°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 47.13°N, 107.52°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 108.63°WFort Union — 46.43°N, 105.24°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.75°WWillwood — 44.19°N, 108.60°WWillwood — 44.17°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.39°N, 108.10°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 110.00°WJohn Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WJohn Day — 44.57°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WDunvegan — 55.63°N, 121.83°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.02°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 55.71°N, 121.21°WDunvegan — 55.73°N, 120.12°WRaton — 36.95°N, 104.33°WRaton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WRaton — 37.15°N, 104.62°WRaton — 37.00°N, 104.48°WRaton — 37.15°N, 104.73°WRaton — 36.80°N, 104.57°WEagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°ESepulcher — 40.00°N, 110.00°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WCoalmont — 40.86°N, 106.34°WCoalmont — 40.91°N, 106.42°WCoalmont — 40.47°N, 106.30°WCoalmont — 40.62°N, 106.10°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.72°WCorwin — 69.51°N, 162.76°WRavenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WLamar River — 44.00°N, 110.00°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WExtension — 49.00°N, 124.00°WProtection — 49.00°N, 124.00°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WMiddle Park — 40.07°N, 106.10°WLance — 49.04°N, 106.58°WFort Union — 49.04°N, 106.58°W

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The named rock units Platanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platanus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Platanus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,630 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 246 sites for Platanus, 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

76 references

Each of the 338 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. 64 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 content2

Picture of Platanus

Credit
Lokal_Profil
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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

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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 itPlatanaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753