Glyptostrobus europaeus

Glyptostrobus europaeus is an extinct conifer species of the family Cupressaceae that is found as fossils throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The sole living species of Glyptostrobus was described from China in 1926. The name of the genus comes from the Greek "glypto" meaning grooved or carved, and "strobilus" meaning cone. The species name "europaeus" refers to the fact that it was first described from Europe.

Glyptostrobus europaeus

Georgialh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
GlyptostrobusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 8 of 219 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 69 of 219 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 57 of 219 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 219 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 66 of 219 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 219 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 219 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 9 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 28 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 39 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 25 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 9 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 13 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 19 occurrences11–8.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences8.4–6.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.0–3.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences66 Mya3.6 Mya74 Mya1 Mya

219 occurrences of Glyptostrobus europaeus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

219 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

17 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.03°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 44.21°N, 107.90°WFort Union — 44.27°N, 107.97°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 103.81°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.97°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 109.26°WFort Union — 41.52°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 41.17°N, 108.92°WFort Union — 41.14°N, 109.06°WFort Union — 41.46°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 46.44°N, 104.00°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.17°N, 108.56°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.18°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.14°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.28°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.09°WGolden Valley — 45.50°N, 103.25°WGolden Valley — 46.98°N, 102.05°WGolden Valley — 47.31°N, 102.11°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 102.67°WGolden Valley — 47.82°N, 102.77°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EWasatch — 41.93°N, 108.00°WOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOgawa — 36.50°N, 138.00°EHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.94°WWillwood Formatin — 44.35°N, 108.07°WChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°ETatsunokuchi — 39.07°N, 141.18°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°EGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EDalianhe — 46.00°N, 129.00°EShulan — 44.33°N, 127.00°ETumenzi — 43.32°N, 128.16°EChu Chua — 51.37°N, 120.15°W

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The named rock units Glyptostrobus europaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glyptostrobus europaeus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Glyptostrobus europaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

528 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 143 sites for Glyptostrobus europaeus, 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

23 references

Each of the 219 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. 11 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 content1

Picture of Glyptostrobus europaeus

Credit
Georgialh
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Glyptostrobus europaeus 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

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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 itGlyptostrobus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1833)