Myristica

Myristica is a genus of trees in the family Myristicaceae. There are over 150 species, distributed in Asia and the western Pacific as far as Vanuatu.

Myristica

Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · 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
Sits inside
MyristicaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 9 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Myristica on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

9 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

4 formations

Ravenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WTikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°E

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The named rock units Myristica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myristica and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Myristica and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

475 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Myristica, 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

7 references

Each of the 9 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 Myristica

Credit
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Myristica sp. · none:none

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 itMyristicaceae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gronovius