Empetrum

Empetrum is a genus of three species of dwarf evergreen shrubs in the heath family, Ericaceae. They are commonly known as crowberries and bear edible fruit. Species of Empetrum include: E. nigrum (crowberry) and its tetraploid form, sometimes given its own name hermaphroditum, E. eamesii and E. rubrum.

A picture published with the record for Empetrum. What it shows has not been checked.

Ante Aikio · Public Domain · 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
PlantaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 9 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence11.63 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Empetrum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

12 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

Odderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°E

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The named rock units Empetrum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Empetrum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Empetrum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Empetrum, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Empetrum

Credit
Ante Aikio
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Empetrum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753