Sequoioxylon

No picture of Sequoioxylon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sequoioxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TaxodiaceaePBDB
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 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya23.04 Mya67 Mya15 Mya

2 occurrences of Sequoioxylon on record. 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

2 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

Lizigou — 41.84°N, 123.90°EKesmekaya — 40.15°N, 25.96°E

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The named rock units Sequoioxylon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sequoioxylon, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content0

No picture of Sequoioxylon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sequoioxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Yasui 1928