Laurus californica
No picture of Laurus californica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Laurus californica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LaurusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
7 occurrences of Laurus californica on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 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 Laurus californica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Laurus californica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Laurus californica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Laurus grandis5 sites
- Juglans rugosa3 sites
- Platanus guillelmae3 sites
- Fagus longifolia2 sites
- Ficus densifolia2 sites
- Juglans crescentia2 sites
- Sequoia2 sites
- Sequoia langsdorfii2 sites
- Archaeomnium patens1 site
- Asplenium iddingsi1 site
- Averrhoites affinis1 site
- Betula heteromorpha1 site
- Betula largei1 site
- Canarium californicum1 site
- Carpinus1 site
- Carpites magnifica1 site
- Carpites paulownia1 site
- Carpites polygonoides1 site
- Castanea castaneaefolia1 site
- Castanea pulchella1 site
- Castanopsis perplexa1 site
- Celastrus fernquisti1 site
- Cyperacites1 site
- Devallia montana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Laurus californica, 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- Fossil Flora of the Yellowstone National Park6
- Flora of the Latah formation of Spokane, Washington, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Laurus californica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Laurus californica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Laurus californica 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.
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What may have been alongside itLaurus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesquereux 1883