Pyracantha sp.

Pyracantha, the firethorn, is a genus of thorny, evergreen shrubs or small trees in the family Rosaceae native to south-eastern Europe and Asia. Pyracantha are cultivated as ornamental plants. They resemble and are related to Cotoneaster, but only Pyracantha has thorns, bumpy leaf edges, and yellow anthers, while Cotoneaster does not grow thorns.

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Laitr Keiows · 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 least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 26 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23.04 Mya3.6 Mya34.6 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Pyracantha sp. on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

26 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

2 formations

Santa Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ERenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°W

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The named rock units Pyracantha sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pyracantha sp. and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pyracantha sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pyracantha sp., 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

9 references

Each of the 26 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pyracantha sp.

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Laitr Keiows
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No 3D scan of Pyracantha sp. was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.