Ptelea

Ptelea is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. The name, of Greek derivation, is the classical name of the elm tree. Carl Linnaeus used that word for this genus because of the resemblance of its fruit to that of the elm. Members of the genus are commonly known as hoptrees.

Ptelea

H. Zell · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
hoptreePBDB
Sits inside
RutaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 9 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45.9 Mya23.04 Mya52 Mya4.4 Mya

9 occurrences of Ptelea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

9 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

3 formations

Renova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WTukwila — 47.50°N, 122.29°W

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The named rock units Ptelea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptelea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ptelea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

272 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ptelea, 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

Each of the 9 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 Ptelea

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itRutaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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