Agonis
Agonis is a genus of flowering plants in the plant family Myrtaceae. All are endemic to Western Australia, growing near the coast in the south west. Plants in the genus Agonis are shrubs or trees with bisexual flowers arranged in heads in leaf axils with 5 sepals and usually 5 white petals, each with 15 to 30 stamens arranged opposite the sepals, and the fruit a woody capsule.

Eric in SF · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- MyrtaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Agonis on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrencesThese 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.
Agonis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Agonis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Agathis kendrickii1 site
- Angiosperm <sp. 1>1 site
- Angiosperm <sp. 2>1 site
- Angiosperm <sp. 3>1 site
- Angiosperm <sp. 4>1 site
- Angiosperm <sp. 5>1 site
- Angiosperm <sp. 6>1 site
- Angiosperm <sp. 7>1 site
- Banksieaephyllum1 site
- Banksieaephyllum longifolium1 site
- Banksieaephyllum westdaliense1 site
- Codia australiensis1 site
- Dacrycarpus patulus1 site
- Gymnostoma1 site
- Laurophyllum striatum1 site
- Myrtaciphyllum1 site
- Myrtaciphyllum annulatum1 site
- Myrtaciphyllum brochidromum1 site
- Myrtaciphyllum sinuatum1 site
- Myrtaciphyllum striatum1 site
- Myrtaciphyllum westdaliense1 site
- Nothofagus tasmanica1 site
- Podocarpaceae1 site
- Proteaceae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Agonis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Agonis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Eric in SF
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Agonis 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Agonis”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMyrtaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindley 1830