Pterostyrax coronatus

Pterostyrax, the epaulette tree, is a small genus of four species of deciduous large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, native to eastern Asia in China and Japan. They grow 4–12 m (13–39 ft) tall, with alternate, simple ovate leaves 6–17 cm (2–7 in) long and 4–10 cm (2–4 in) broad. The flowers are white, produced in dense panicles 8–25 cm (3–10 in) long. The fruit is an oblong dry drupe, with longitudinal ribs or narrow wings.SpeciesPterostyrax burmanicus W.Wsm. Pterostyrax corymbosus Siebold & Zucc. – Japan and China Pterostyrax hispidus – Japan Pterostyrax psilophyllus Diels ex Perkins – China

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Uncredited · 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 39 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 27.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrencePaleocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 1 occurrenceOligocene67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66.8 Mya26.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Pterostyrax coronatus 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 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.

Pterostyrax coronatus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pterostyrax coronatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pterostyrax coronatus, 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 reference

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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Picture of Pterostyrax coronatus

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No 3D scan of Pterostyrax coronatus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.