Photinia

Photinia is a genus of about 30 species of small trees and large shrubs, but the taxonomy has recently varied greatly, with the genera Heteromeles, Stranvaesia and Aronia sometimes included in Photinia.

Photinia

Wouter Hagens · 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
RosaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya11.63 Mya57 Mya4 Mya

13 occurrences of Photinia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

13 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

8 formations

Chloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EShihti — 25.16°N, 121.59°E

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The named rock units Photinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Photinia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Photinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

262 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Photinia, 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

9 references

Each of the 13 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 Photinia

Credit
Wouter Hagens
Licence
Public Domain
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

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 itRosaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindley 1820