Amentotaxus

Amentotaxus is a genus of conifers (catkin-yews) comprising five species, treated in the Taxaceae. The genus is native to subtropical Southeast Asia, from Taiwan west across southern China to Assam in the eastern Himalaya, and south to Vietnam. The species are evergreen shrubs and small trees reaching 2–15 m tall.

Amentotaxus

Kevmin · 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
Also called
catkin-yewPBDB
Sits inside
TaxaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72.2 Mya56 Mya91 Mya33 Mya

5 occurrences of Amentotaxus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

5 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

3 formations

Comox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WFort Union — 45.30°N, 108.92°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°W

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The named rock units Amentotaxus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amentotaxus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Amentotaxus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

119 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Amentotaxus, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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. 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 Amentotaxus

Credit
Kevmin
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amentotaxus 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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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itTaxaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilger 1917