Araucarites

Araucarites is an extinct genus of conifer, used to refer to female conifer cones and cone scales that resemble those of the family Araucariaceae. Species assigned to the genus lived in the Permian to Eocene and have been found worldwide.

Araucarites

William Caruthers · Public Domain · 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
AraucariaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 227 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 206 occurrencesPermian — about 11 of 206 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 206 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 206 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 206 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 9 of 206 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 37 of 206 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 65 of 206 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 46 of 206 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 22 of 206 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 206 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 206 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 206 occurrences304–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–286 Mya — about 3 occurrences286–277 Mya — about 3 occurrences277–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–231 Mya — about 3 occurrences231–222 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–212 Mya — about 1 occurrence212–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–194 Mya — about 5 occurrences194–185 Mya — about 3 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–166 Mya — about 27 occurrences166–157 Mya — about 22 occurrences157–148 Mya — about 41 occurrences148–139 Mya — about 15 occurrences139–130 Mya — about 7 occurrences130–120 Mya — about 8 occurrences120–111 Mya — about 13 occurrences111–102 Mya — about 13 occurrences102–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences93–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–75 Mya — about 12 occurrences75–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283.3 Mya56 Mya304 Mya29 Mya

206 occurrences of Araucarites on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

206 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

60 formations

Bhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.22°N, 69.74°EBhuj — 23.10°N, 69.43°EBhuj — 23.68°N, 68.87°EBhuj — 23.18°N, 69.38°EBhuj — 23.31°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.39°N, 70.53°EBhuj — 23.37°N, 69.71°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EEagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EBearreraig Sandstone — 57.50°N, 6.13°WJabalpur — 23.18°N, 79.95°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EJabalpur — 22.61°N, 78.04°EJabalpur — 22.37°N, 77.61°EJabalpur — 22.32°N, 77.47°EGangapur — 17.27°N, 81.01°EGangapur — 19.41°N, 79.18°EGangapur — 19.33°N, 79.39°EBhuj (plus Jhuran in part?) — 23.40°N, 69.50°ECretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WCretaceous — 43.09°N, 104.51°WBansa — 23.76°N, 81.46°EBansa — 23.65°N, 80.70°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EAthgarh — 20.50°N, 85.80°EAthgarh — 20.51°N, 85.74°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EGardeshwar — 21.89°N, 73.66°ERajmahal — 20.52°N, 85.63°ERajmahal — 24.65°N, 87.79°ERajmahal — 24.95°N, 87.28°EBelle Plains — 30.27°N, 97.74°WBelle Plains — 33.63°N, 98.95°WSaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WCañadón Asfalto — 43.50°S, 69.10°WCañadón Asfalto — 43.90°S, 69.00°WUtano — 34.20°N, 131.30°EParsora — 24.70°N, 87.40°ESivaganga — 11.10°N, 78.87°EMcRae — 33.13°N, 107.25°WTaynton Limestone — 51.80°N, 1.40°WEnid — 36.73°N, 97.47°WWellington — 38.68°N, 97.30°W

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The named rock units Araucarites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 66 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Araucarites and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Araucarites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,071 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Araucarites, 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

67 references

Each of the 206 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. 55 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 Araucarites

Credit
William Caruthers
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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. Presl 1833