Phyllocladus aspleniifolius

Phyllocladus aspleniifolius, commonly known as the celerytop pine, is an endemic gymnosperm of Tasmania, Australia. It is widespread and common in Tasmania, with the most abundance in the western highlands. Its leaves appear similar to those of a celery plant, hence the common name.

Phyllocladus aspleniifolius

Ernst Haeckel · 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
PhyllocladusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence66 Mya2.58 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Phyllocladus aspleniifolius on record. 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

3 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

1 formation

Half Three Point — 62.18°S, 58.97°W

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The named rock units Phyllocladus aspleniifolius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phyllocladus aspleniifolius, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Phyllocladus aspleniifolius

Credit
Ernst Haeckel
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phyllocladus aspleniifolius was found in Sketchfab.

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 itPhyllocladus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hooker 1845