Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of Eucalyptus are trees, often mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including Corymbia and Angophora, they are commonly known as eucalypts or "gum trees". Species of Eucalyptus have bark that is either smooth, fibrous, hard, or stringy and leaves that have oil glands. The sepals and petals are fused to form a "cap" or operculum over the stamens, hence the name from Greek eû 'well' and kaluptós 'covered'.

Eucalyptus

Ethel Aardvark · CC BY 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
Also called
eucalyptusPBDB
Sits inside
MyrtaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 100 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 100 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 100 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 26 of 100 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 100 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 100 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 100 occurrencesPleistocene — about 59 of 100 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 10 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 61 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

100 occurrences of Eucalyptus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

100 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

11 formations

Huitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 33.53°N, 81.83°WBlack Creek — 34.26°N, 79.76°WMenshi — 32.17°N, 79.97°ELiuqu — 29.17°N, 87.75°ERelu — 30.07°N, 100.30°ETuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°WNaturita — 39.00°N, 109.00°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EEutaw — 32.41°N, 84.83°WRipley — 32.38°N, 84.44°WDeccan Intertrappean — 23.11°N, 80.61°E

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The named rock units Eucalyptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 65 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eucalyptus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eucalyptus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

675 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Eucalyptus, 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

17 references

Each of the 100 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. 5 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 Eucalyptus

Credit
Ethel Aardvark
Licence
CC BY 3.0
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

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

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 itMyrtaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. L'Héritier de Brutelle 1789