Persea

Persea

Uncredited · 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
LauraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 83 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 83 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 83 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 83 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 83 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 33 of 83 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 83 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 83 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 8 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences72.2 Mya2.58 Mya103 Mya0 Mya

83 occurrences of Persea 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

83 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

27 formations

Yagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EEagle — 44.96°N, 108.85°WFort Union — 46.22°N, 108.32°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 46.53°N, 108.02°WItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.32°N, 138.85°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EIone — 39.31°N, 120.96°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WOropouche — 10.00°N, 61.00°WCerro Pelado — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMerhten — 37.61°N, 120.59°WSan Joaquin — 36.00°N, 120.06°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WMiddle Park — 40.07°N, 106.10°WRaton — 36.90°N, 104.43°WNacimiento — 36.79°N, 104.87°WCoalmont — 40.73°N, 106.28°WAnimas — 37.03°N, 107.20°WLivingston — 45.85°N, 110.86°WLigorio Márquez — 36.77°S, 71.83°W

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The named rock units Persea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Persea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Persea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

697 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Persea, 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

31 references

Each of the 83 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. 19 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 Persea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaertner 1805