Phoebe

Phoebe is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. There are 75 accepted species in the genus, distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia and New Guinea. 35 species occur in China, of which 27 are endemic. The first description of the genus was of the type species P. lanceolata made in 1836 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in Systema Laurinarum, p. 98.

Phoebe

Phil41 · CC0 · 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 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 44 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 44 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 44 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences51.1 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Phoebe 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

44 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

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.18°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WShuanghe — 27.50°N, 99.83°EXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°EXiaolongtan — 25.42°N, 102.85°ENanlin — 25.12°N, 98.83°EFort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WLigorio Márquez — 36.77°S, 71.83°WChangsheling — 23.75°N, 106.92°EShinao — 25.77°N, 104.65°ETura — 25.49°N, 90.77°E

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The named rock units Phoebe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phoebe and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phoebe and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

799 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Phoebe, 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

22 references

Each of the 44 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. 10 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 Phoebe

Credit
Phil41
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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.

The description on this site

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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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nees 1836