Taxodium dubium

Taxodium dubium is an extinct species of baldcypress in the genus Taxodium in the family Cupressaceae which lived from the Late Paleocene to the Pliocene in North America, Europe and Asia. The species was first described in 1823 by Kaspar Maria von Sternberg.

Taxodium dubium

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 125 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 125 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 125 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 26 of 125 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 85 of 125 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 125 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 125 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–25 Mya — about 10 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 11 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 35 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 18 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences56 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

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

125 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

9 formations

Latah — 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°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EOdderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°EChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°EOhoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°ESalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WTumenzi — 43.32°N, 128.16°EChu Chua — 51.37°N, 120.15°W

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The named rock units Taxodium dubium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 109 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taxodium dubium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Taxodium dubium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Taxodium dubium, 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

18 references

Each of the 125 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. 6 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 Taxodium dubium

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No 3D scan of Taxodium dubium 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 itTaxodium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sternberg 1824)