Kalmia elliptica
No picture of Kalmia elliptica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kalmia elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KalmiaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Kalmia elliptica 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Kalmia elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kalmia elliptica and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Kalmia elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Cercidiphyllum2 sites
- Fraxinus eocenica2 sites
- Lastrea goldiana2 sites
- Metasequoia occidentalis2 sites
- Platanus raynoldsi2 sites
- Allantodiopsis erosa1 site
- Ampelopsis acerifolia1 site
- Artocarpus lessigiana1 site
- Averrhoites affinis1 site
- Betula1 site
- Chaetoptelea microphylla1 site
- Cissus marginata1 site
- Corylus acutertiaria1 site
- Corylus insignis1 site
- Dryopteris1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Eucommia1 site
- Ficus (Ficus)1 site
- Ficus planicostata1 site
- Ficus subtruncata1 site
- Ginkgo adiantoides1 site
- Glyptostrobu nordenskioldi1 site
- Glyptostrobus1 site
- Hydrangea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kalmia elliptica, 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
2 references- Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains2
- Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota1
Each of the 3 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. 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
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No picture of Kalmia elliptica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kalmia elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kalmia elliptica 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itKalmia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1962