Cercidiphyllaceae

Cercidiphyllum is a genus containing two species of plants, both commonly called katsura. They are the sole members of the monotypic family Cercidiphyllaceae. The genus is native to Japan and China and unrelated to Cercis (redbuds).

Cercidiphyllaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 774 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 362 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 95 of 362 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 169 of 362 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 64 of 362 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 362 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 362 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 362 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 362 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 37 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 48 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 53 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 51 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 70 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 20 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 8 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 8 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences100.5 Mya2.58 Mya115 Mya0 Mya

362 occurrences of Cercidiphyllaceae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

362 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

59 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 108.05°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.03°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 44.20°N, 107.88°WFort Union — 44.50°N, 108.33°WFort Union — 46.51°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.45°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.97°WFort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 41.16°N, 108.92°WFort Union — 41.46°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 41.59°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 43.03°N, 104.63°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 43.87°N, 108.17°WFort Union — 47.55°N, 101.22°WFort Union — 46.92°N, 103.52°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 44.53°N, 109.05°WFort Union — 44.90°N, 107.03°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 106.85°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 105.93°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 43.90°N, 107.52°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 101.72°WFort Union — 40.59°N, 107.69°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 45.97°N, 106.22°WFort Union — 45.88°N, 106.62°WFort Union — 46.09°N, 106.72°WFort Union — 46.87°N, 105.44°WFort Union — 48.18°N, 110.12°WFort Union — 45.83°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 45.15°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 108.08°WFort Union — 46.78°N, 105.46°WFort Union — 45.99°N, 109.72°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.95°WFort Union — 43.97°N, 106.58°WFort Union — 43.93°N, 108.65°WFort Union — 41.37°N, 109.21°WFort Union — 41.34°N, 109.21°WFort Union — 45.47°N, 103.21°WFort Union — 45.92°N, 101.55°WFort Union — 47.40°N, 103.25°WFort Union — 46.92°N, 103.83°WFort Union — 46.43°N, 105.24°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.75°WFort Union — 41.71°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 103.88°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.82°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.85°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.40°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 45.87°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 104.96°WHell Creek — 49.32°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 45.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.94°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.18°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.14°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.09°WWillwood — 44.19°N, 108.59°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 110.00°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WGolden Valley — 46.88°N, 102.78°WGolden Valley — 46.98°N, 102.05°WGolden Valley — 46.92°N, 102.08°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WGolden Valley — 46.92°N, 102.58°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 102.67°WGolden Valley — 47.82°N, 102.77°WGolden Valley — 47.37°N, 103.02°WGolden Valley — 47.38°N, 103.26°WRavenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WEagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°WJohn Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WJohn Day — 44.57°N, 119.63°WChallis Volcanics — 44.37°N, 114.24°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EPaskapoo — 54.33°N, 118.75°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WBrazeau — 53.00°N, 117.00°WEvanston — 41.27°N, 110.97°WCoalmont — 40.73°N, 106.28°WCoalmont — 40.62°N, 106.10°WCoalmont — 40.72°N, 106.17°WTullock — 46.41°N, 105.84°WTullock — 46.58°N, 105.88°WTullock — 45.45°N, 105.40°WWuyun — 49.28°N, 129.67°EKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WDunvegan — 56.20°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 55.71°N, 121.21°WLance — 43.09°N, 104.65°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.59°WCretaceous — 43.09°N, 104.53°WMiddle Park — 40.07°N, 106.10°WRaton — 36.95°N, 104.33°WFort Union? — 43.02°N, 106.09°WFort Union? — 43.04°N, 104.77°WShulan — 44.33°N, 127.00°E

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The named rock units Cercidiphyllaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cercidiphyllaceae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Cercidiphyllaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

853 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 295 sites for Cercidiphyllaceae, and this reads 240 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

56 references

Each of the 362 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. 44 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Cercidiphyllaceae

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No 3D scan of Cercidiphyllaceae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Engler 1907