Euphorbia

Euphorbia is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae.

Euphorbia

Alvesgaspar · 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
EuphorbiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 38 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–8.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.3–5.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.0–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–2.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.5–1.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka37.7 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Euphorbia 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

38 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

4 formations

Olduvai — 2.99°S, 35.35°EFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°W

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The named rock units Euphorbia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euphorbia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Euphorbia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

667 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Euphorbia, 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

18 references

Each of the 38 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. 6 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 Euphorbia

Credit
Alvesgaspar
Licence
CC BY-SA 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

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 itEuphorbiaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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