Microcachrys
Joseph Dalton Hooker · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- PodocarpaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 129 ka.
20 occurrences of Microcachrys on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
20 occurrences- Oligocene2%
- Miocene13%
- Pleistocene85%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Microcachrys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
270 taxa- Nothofagus19 sites
- Podocarpus19 sites
- Cupressaceae18 sites
- Cyathea18 sites
- Dacrydium18 sites
- Acacia17 sites
- Asteraceae17 sites
- Casuarinaceae17 sites
- Chenopodiaceae17 sites
- Cunoniaceae17 sites
- Cyperaceae17 sites
- Dicksonia17 sites
- Eucalyptus17 sites
- Gleichenia17 sites
- Monotoca17 sites
- Myrtaceae17 sites
- Phyllocladus17 sites
- Plantago17 sites
- Poaceae17 sites
- Pomaderris17 sites
- Proteaceae17 sites
- Restionaceae17 sites
- Agathis16 sites
- Banksia16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Microcachrys, 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
4 references- Early Pleistocene vegetation change in upland south-eastern Australia16
- Palynology of the early Miocene Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand: Diversity following destruction2
- Leaf Fossils of the Ancient Tasmanian Relict Microcachrys (Podocarpaceae) from New Zealand1
- Extinct conifers and conifer diversity in the Early Pleistocene of western Tasmania1
Each of the 20 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
Media content1
Picture of Microcachrys
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPodocarpaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hooker 1845