Callitris

Callitris is a genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. There are 16 recognized species in the genus, of which 13 are native to Australia and the other three native to New Caledonia. Traditionally, the most widely used common name is cypress-pine, a name shared by some species of the closely related genus Actinostrobus. Alongside Eucalyptus and Acacia, Callitris is one of the dominant tree genera in Australia.

Callitris

Hesperian · CC BY 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
CallitroideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 142 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 27 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences143.1 Mya129 ka152 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Callitris 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

27 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

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°E

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The named rock units Callitris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callitris and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Callitris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Callitris, 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

7 references

Each of the 27 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 Callitris

Credit
Hesperian
Licence
CC BY 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
Callitris rhomboidea · ku:kupb

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 itCallitroideae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ventenat 1808