Sequoia affinis

Sequoia affinis is an extinct species of conifer in the cypress family Cupressaceae.

Sequoia affinis

Kevmin · 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
Sits inside
SequoiaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 11 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya23.04 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

26 occurrences of Sequoia affinis 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

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

11 formations

Challis Volcanics — 44.37°N, 114.24°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°EOgawa — 36.50°N, 138.00°ERenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WSalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°Esandstone of Floras Lake — 42.83°N, 124.56°WOhanapecosh — 45.86°N, 122.21°W

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The named rock units Sequoia affinis 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.

Sequoia affinis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sequoia affinis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

342 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Sequoia affinis, 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

11 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. 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 Sequoia affinis

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Kevmin
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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sequoia affinis was found in Sketchfab.

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

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesquereux 1876