Eucryphia

Eucryphia is a small genus of trees and large shrubs native to the south temperate regions of South America and coastal eastern Australia, predominantly Tasmania. Some common names include leatherwood in Australia, and Ulmo, Nirre or Guindo santo in Argentina and Chile. Sometimes placed in a family of their own, the Eucryphiaceae, they are placed by more recent classifications in the Cunoniaceae. There are seven species, two in South America and five in Australia, and several named hybrids.

Eucryphia

Cristian Ordenes · CC BY 2.0 · 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
CunoniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 17 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences56 Mya129 ka60 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Eucryphia 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

17 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

Regency — 42.31°S, 145.66°E

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The named rock units Eucryphia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eucryphia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eucryphia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

344 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Eucryphia, 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 17 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. 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 Eucryphia

Credit
Cristian Ordenes
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eucryphia 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. Cavanilles 1798