Daphne

Daphne is a genus of between 70 and 95 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs in the family Thymelaeaceae, native to Asia, Europe and north Africa. They are noted for their scented flowers and often brightly coloured berries. Two species are used to make paper. Many species are grown in gardens as ornamental plants; the smaller species are often used in rock gardens. All parts of daphnes are poisonous for humans, especially the berries, though birds eat these freely to disperse the seeds.

Daphne

Bernd Haynold · 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
ThymelaeaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 8 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences41.03 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Daphne on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

8 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

Ohoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°E

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The named rock units Daphne has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Daphne and its relatives

Eocene

Where Daphne and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Daphne, 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

7 references

Each of the 8 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. 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 Daphne

Credit
Bernd Haynold
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itThymelaeaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753