Taxodium

Taxodium is a genus of one to three species of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. The name is derived from the Latin word taxus 'yew' and the Greek word εἶδος (eidos) 'similar to'. Within the family, Taxodium is most closely related to Chinese swamp cypress and sugi.

Taxodium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TaxodioideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 142 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 272 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 272 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 272 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 22 of 272 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 19 of 272 occurrencesEocene — about 73 of 272 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 50 of 272 occurrencesMiocene — about 97 of 272 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 272 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 272 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 18 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 14 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 9 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 20 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 18 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 17 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 16 occurrences33–27 Mya — about 14 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 35 occurrences22–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 69 occurrences11–5.5 Mya — about 19 occurrences5.5–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences143.1 Mya129 ka165 Mya0 Mya

272 occurrences of Taxodium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

272 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

32 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.98°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 46.17°N, 108.43°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 106.20°WFort Union — 45.99°N, 109.72°WFort Union — 43.93°N, 108.65°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 103.93°WHell Creek — 46.15°N, 103.82°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 45.87°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 45.53°N, 101.63°WLatah — 47.75°N, 117.55°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WLatah — 47.70°N, 116.75°WLatah — 47.65°N, 117.21°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EChu Chua — 51.37°N, 120.15°WChu Chua — 51.36°N, 120.15°WItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EOdderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°EBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°EAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WAllenby — 49.22°N, 119.96°WChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°EOhoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°EHorseshoe Canyon — 51.47°N, 112.77°WPyramid — 39.90°N, 119.55°WSalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WKovachinskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EMarks Head — 32.57°N, 81.36°WLivingston — 45.85°N, 110.86°WWillwood? — 44.48°N, 108.05°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WFox Hills — 46.53°N, 100.47°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.83°W

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The named rock units Taxodium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 196 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taxodium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Taxodium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,800 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 132 sites for Taxodium, 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

46 references

Each of the 272 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. 34 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 content2

Picture of Taxodium

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Richard 1810