Lagerstroemia

Lagerstroemia, commonly known as crape myrtle, is a genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Australia, and other parts of Oceania, cultivated in warmer climates around the world. It is a member of the family Lythraceae, which is also known as the loosestrife family. These flowering trees are often planted both privately and commercially as ornamentals.

Lagerstroemia

Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · 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
crepe myrtlePBDB
Sits inside
LythraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 16 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Lagerstroemia 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

16 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

6 formations

Lower — 31.95°N, 76.27°ELower — 29.14°N, 80.19°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.16°N, 79.17°ERajdanda — 23.42°N, 84.13°ESayama — 35.78°N, 139.38°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°E

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The named rock units Lagerstroemia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lagerstroemia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lagerstroemia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

604 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Lagerstroemia, 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

9 references

Each of the 16 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

Media content2

Picture of Lagerstroemia

Credit
Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itLythraceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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