Pinus

Pines are a genus of conifers in the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The species are trees or shrubs with their leaves in bunches, usually of 2 to 5 needles. The seeds are carried on woody cones, with two seeds to each cone scale.

Pinus

Vlad & Marina Butsky on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Also called
pinePBDB
Sits inside
PinaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 615 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 615 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 615 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 615 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 615 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 615 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 615 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 615 occurrencesEocene — about 51 of 615 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 63 of 615 occurrencesMiocene — about 209 of 615 occurrencesPliocene — about 45 of 615 occurrencesPleistocene — about 200 of 615 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence193–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–177 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–113 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 21 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 13 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 26 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 46 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 43 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 153 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 289 occurrences205.7 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

615 occurrences of Pinus 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

615 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

76 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WChloropagus — 39.79°N, 118.94°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.67°N, 1.33°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 111.00°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 110.70°WSalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WCretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WCoal Valley — 39.52°N, 119.99°WCoal Valley — 39.31°N, 119.65°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.70°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.57°N, 119.63°WChallis Volcanics — 44.37°N, 114.24°WSanying — 26.42°N, 99.40°ESanying — 26.02°N, 100.00°ESanying — 26.57°N, 100.13°EXiaolongtan — 25.42°N, 102.85°EXiaolongtan — 25.49°N, 103.02°EGolden Valley — 46.88°N, 102.78°WGolden Valley — 46.92°N, 102.58°WThanet — 51.37°N, 1.13°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WDisaster Peak — 38.50°N, 120.00°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WAldrich Station — 38.49°N, 118.90°WCheyenne Sandstone — 37.45°N, 99.08°WLibano Sandstone — 46.14°N, 12.22°EChu Chua — 51.37°N, 120.15°W

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The named rock units Pinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 471 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pinus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,199 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 346 sites for Pinus, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

139 references

Each of the 615 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. 127 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 Pinus

Credit
Vlad & Marina Butsky on Flickr
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pinus sp. · hlu:ccc:731incid

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 itPinaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753