Pleioblastus sp.
Pleioblastus is an East Asian genus of monopodial bamboos in the grass family Poaceae. They are native to China and Japan, and naturalized in scattered places in Korea, Europe, New Zealand, and the Western Hemisphere.

KENPEI · CC BY-SA 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.
Time the record covers
At most 64 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pleioblastus sp. on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pleioblastus sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pleioblastus sp. and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pleioblastus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Acer1 site
- Alangium1 site
- Berchemia1 site
- Carex1 site
- Cladrastis1 site
- Glyptostobus pensilis1 site
- Lindera1 site
- Liquidambar1 site
- Nyssa sylvatica1 site
- Paliurus1 site
- Quercus1 site
- Sabia japonica1 site
- Salix1 site
- Sequoia sempervirens1 site
- Vitaceae1 site
- Wisteria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pleioblastus sp., 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 referenceEach 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 content1
Picture of Pleioblastus sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- KENPEI
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pleioblastus sp. 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 itFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.