Dacrycarpus

Dacrycarpus is a genus of conifers belonging to the family Podocarpaceae. The genus includes nine species of dioecious evergreen trees and shrubs to 55–60 metres (180–197 ft) in height.

Dacrycarpus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocarpaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 129 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 58 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 58 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 15 of 58 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 58 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 58 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya103 Mya0 Mya

58 occurrences of Dacrycarpus on record. 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

58 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

6 formations

Huitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°EPidinga — 31.24°S, 121.63°ETaratu — 43.18°S, 171.78°ELigorio Márquez — 46.84°S, 71.87°W

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The named rock units Dacrycarpus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

568 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Dacrycarpus, 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

15 references

Each of the 58 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. 3 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 content2

Picture of Dacrycarpus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Laubenfels 1969