Archontophoenix

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- ArecaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Archontophoenix on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
10 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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.
Archontophoenix and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Archontophoenix and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
178 taxa- Acacia10 sites
- Agathis10 sites
- Araucaria10 sites
- Argyrodendron10 sites
- Callitris10 sites
- Casuarinaceae10 sites
- Cunoniaceae10 sites
- Cyathea10 sites
- Davalliaceae10 sites
- Dodonaea10 sites
- Drynaria10 sites
- Elaeocarpus10 sites
- Eucalyptus10 sites
- Lonchocarpus10 sites
- Macaranga10 sites
- Mallotus10 sites
- Monolete10 sites
- Olea10 sites
- Platycerium10 sites
- Podocarpus10 sites
- Pteridophyta10 sites
- Rapanea10 sites
- Sapindaceae10 sites
- Sapotaceae10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Archontophoenix, 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 10 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 Archontophoenix
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Archontophoenix 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArecaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wendland and Drude 1875