Cunninghamia
Searched as Cunninghamia lanceolata konishii. The Paleobiology Database treats Cunninghamia as the accepted name.
Cunninghamia is a genus of one or two living species of evergreen coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae. They are native to China, northern Vietnam and Laos, and perhaps also Cambodia. They may reach 70 m (230 ft) in height. In vernacular use, it is most often known as Cunninghamia, but is also sometimes called "China-fir". The genus name Cunninghamia honours Dr. James Cunningham, a British doctor who introduced this species into cultivation in 1702 and botanist Allan Cunningham.
Micromesistius · CC BY-SA 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
- CunninghamioideaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cunninghamia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
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The named rock units Cunninghamia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cunninghamia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cunninghamia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
311 taxa- Pinus8 sites
- Abies6 sites
- Acer6 sites
- Fagus5 sites
- Pseudolarix5 sites
- Quercus5 sites
- Chamaecyparis4 sites
- Pterocarya4 sites
- Tilia4 sites
- Tsuga4 sites
- Ulmus4 sites
- Alnus3 sites
- Carex3 sites
- Carpinus3 sites
- Crataegus3 sites
- Juglans3 sites
- Metasequoia disticha3 sites
- Metasequoia occidentalis3 sites
- Picea3 sites
- Prunus3 sites
- Ribes3 sites
- Salvinia3 sites
- Sciadopitys3 sites
- Sequoia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cunninghamia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Cunninghamia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Micromesistius
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cunninghamia 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
- 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 itCunninghamioideae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown