Pilea

Pilea, with 600–715 species, is the largest genus of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae.

Pilea

Alexandre K. Monro, Yi-Gang Wei and Long-Fei Fu. · CC BY 4.0 · 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
UrticaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Pilea 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

11 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

2 formations

Santa Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°E

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The named rock units Pilea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pilea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pilea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pilea, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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 Pilea

Credit
Alexandre K. Monro, Yi-Gang Wei and Long-Fei Fu.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pilea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itUrticaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindley 1821