Liriodendron

Liriodendron is a genus of two species of characteristically large trees, deciduous over most of their populations, in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae).

Liriodendron

Bruce Marlin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MagnoliaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 90 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 69 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 69 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 69 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 69 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 69 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 37 of 69 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 69 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 69 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 13 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences93.9 Mya3.6 Mya103 Mya0 Mya

69 occurrences of Liriodendron 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

69 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

10 formations

Dunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.08°N, 120.17°WDunvegan — 59.00°N, 118.27°WDunvegan — 55.71°N, 121.21°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WExtension — 49.00°N, 124.00°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EFox Hills — 46.53°N, 100.47°WDaotaiqiao — 46.50°N, 130.50°EChu Chua — 51.37°N, 120.15°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°W

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The named rock units Liriodendron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liriodendron and its relatives

Miocene

Where Liriodendron and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Liriodendron, 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

18 references

Each of the 69 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. 6 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 Liriodendron

Credit
Bruce Marlin
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
astovall
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itMagnoliaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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