Fraxinus

Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous, although some subtropical species are evergreen. The genus is widespread throughout much of Europe, Asia, and North America.

Fraxinus

Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · 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
Also called
ashPBDB
Sits inside
OleaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 91 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 91 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 91 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 91 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 91 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 91 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 91 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 91 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 9 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 28 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

91 occurrences of Fraxinus 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

91 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

34 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.82°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 42.75°N, 109.72°WFort Union — 45.93°N, 105.87°WFort Union — 47.40°N, 103.25°WLance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.61°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WAldrich Station — 38.49°N, 118.90°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WCretaceous — 43.21°N, 104.63°WPyramid — 39.90°N, 119.55°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WLaramie — 44.97°N, 110.67°WDesert Peak — 39.39°N, 118.97°WSalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WMiddle Park — 40.07°N, 106.10°W

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The named rock units Fraxinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fraxinus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Fraxinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,053 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Fraxinus, 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

38 references

Each of the 91 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. 26 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 Fraxinus

Credit
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
ITEMM
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itOleaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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