Quercus glauca
Quercus glauca, commonly called ring-cupped oak or Japanese blue oak, is a tree in the beech family (Fagaceae). It is native to eastern and southern Asia, where it is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, northern and eastern India, southern Japan, Kashmir, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, and Vietnam. It is placed in subgenus Cerris, section Cyclobalanopsis.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- QuercusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Quercus glauca on record. 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
5 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
2 formations
- Itahana Formation · Tomioka Group1
- Seto Porcelain Clay Formation · Seto Group1
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The named rock units Quercus glauca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Carpinus5 sites
- Abies4 sites
- Alnus4 sites
- Betula4 sites
- Ulmus4 sites
- Acer3 sites
- Corylus3 sites
- Cyperaceae3 sites
- Picea3 sites
- Pinus wallichiana3 sites
- Poaceae3 sites
- Populus3 sites
- Rhus3 sites
- Rosaceae3 sites
- Typha3 sites
- Acer oblongum2 sites
- Actinodaphne2 sites
- Aesculus2 sites
- Alnus nepalensis2 sites
- Apiaceae2 sites
- Asteraceae2 sites
- Berberis2 sites
- Berberis lycium2 sites
- Betula utilis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Quercus glauca, 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
2 referencesEach of the 5 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 content2
Picture of Quercus glauca
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- chiuluan
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itQuercus through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thunberg 1784