Arbutus

Arbutus is a genus of 12 accepted species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to temperate regions of the Mediterranean, western Europe, the Canary Islands and North America, and commonly called madrones, madronas, or strawberry trees. The name Arbutus was taken by taxonomists from Latin, where it referred to the species now designated Arbutus unedo.

Arbutus

Didier Descouens · 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
madronePBDB
Sits inside
EricaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

17 occurrences of Arbutus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

17 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

10 formations

Chloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WPyramid — 39.90°N, 119.55°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WMerhten — 37.61°N, 120.59°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WCoal Valley — 39.31°N, 119.65°WDesert Peak — 39.39°N, 118.97°Wsandstone of Floras Lake — 42.83°N, 124.56°W

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The named rock units Arbutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Arbutus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Arbutus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Arbutus, 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

10 references

Each of the 17 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. 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 Arbutus

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

3D model

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

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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What may have been alongside itEricaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753