Calycites

Calycites is an extinct form genus of flowering plant used as a dustbin for fossil flowers of uncertain relationship.

Calycites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 51.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 45.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85.7 Mya51.1 Mya102 Mya45 Mya

11 occurrences of Calycites on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

11 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

7 formations

Fort Union — 44.91°N, 109.03°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.14°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 109.35°WWasatch — 41.89°N, 108.04°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WTuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°W

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

Calycites and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Calycites and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Calycites, 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 11 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 Calycites

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

No 3D scan of Calycites 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAsteraceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Massalongo 1856