Oreodaphne

Ocotea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. Many are evergreen trees with lauroid leaves.

Oreodaphne

G.-U. Tolkiehn · 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
LauraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–622 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya23.04 Mya102 Mya622 ka

14 occurrences of Oreodaphne on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

14 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

3 formations

Rockdale — 30.32°N, 97.30°WAckerman — 34.66°N, 89.10°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°W

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The named rock units Oreodaphne has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oreodaphne and its relatives

Eocene

Where Oreodaphne and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Oreodaphne, 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Oreodaphne

Credit
G.-U. Tolkiehn
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itLauraceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nees 1833