Cenarrhenes

Cenarrhenes is a monotypic genus in the family Proteaceae containing the single species Cenarrhenes nitida, known as the Port Arthur plum or native plum. Cenarrhenes nitida is an evergreen shrub to small tree endemic to the rainforests and scrublands of western Tasmania. It bears white flowers in late spring followed by the development of fleshy fruit.

Cenarrhenes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProteaceaePBDB
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 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Cenarrhenes 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

6 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

1 formation

Regency — 42.31°S, 145.66°E

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The named rock units Cenarrhenes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cenarrhenes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cenarrhenes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cenarrhenes, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 Cenarrhenes

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Mitra.vathy1001
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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cenarrhenes 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Labillardière 1805