Sabal

Sabal is a genus of New World palms. Currently, there are 17 recognized species of Sabal, including one hybrid species.

Sabal

William Bumgarner (en.wp:Zsinj) · Public Domain · 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
Sits inside
ArecaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 66 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 23 of 66 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 30 of 66 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 66 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 66 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 66 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 66 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 6 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 6 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences72.2 Mya129 ka85 Mya0 Mya

66 occurrences of Sabal on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

66 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

21 formations

Okinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ERaton — 37.17°N, 104.50°WRaton — 36.95°N, 104.33°WRaton — 36.90°N, 104.43°WRaton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WRaton — 37.00°N, 104.48°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 46.09°N, 106.72°WFort Union — 46.62°N, 104.32°WFort Union — 44.24°N, 105.07°WNacimiento — 36.79°N, 104.87°WNacimiento — 36.67°N, 104.77°WAnimas — 37.03°N, 107.20°WDeccan Intertrappean — 21.01°N, 78.60°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EMcRae — 33.13°N, 107.25°WBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WLibano Sandstone — 46.14°N, 12.22°ELaramie — 39.06°N, 104.17°WTullock — 46.58°N, 105.88°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WPuerco — 44.97°N, 108.62°WFerris? — 41.84°N, 106.78°WFort Union? — 43.04°N, 104.77°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WAguja — 29.30°N, 103.57°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.46°W

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The named rock units Sabal has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sabal and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sabal and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Sabal, 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

22 references

Each of the 66 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Sabal

Credit
William Bumgarner (en.wp:Zsinj)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sabal 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

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 itArecaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adanson 1763