Bursera

Bursera is a genus with about 100 described species of flowering shrubs and trees varying in size up to 25 m (82 ft) high. It is the type genus for Burseraceae. The trees are native to the Americas, from the southern United States south through to northern Argentina, in tropical and warm temperate forest habitats. It is named after the 17th-century Danish botanist Joachim Burser.

Bursera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BurseraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 7 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Bursera on record. 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

13 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

2 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°W

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The named rock units Bursera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

315 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Bursera, 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

5 references

Each of the 13 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 Bursera

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Bursera simaruba · 64443

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBurseraceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jacquin 1760