Pinus raritanensis
Pinus raritanensis was a pine species from the Campanian stage. It was discovered in the Raritan Formation with other remains found in the Black Creek Formation along the American East Coast, particularly in New Jersey, South Carolina and Alabama. It is only known from foliage.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PinusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pinus raritanensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Pinus raritanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pinus raritanensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pinus raritanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Celastrophyllum crenatum2 sites
- Citrophyllum aligerum2 sites
- Diospyros primaeva2 sites
- Ficus krausiana2 sites
- Juglans arctica2 sites
- Laurus plutonia2 sites
- Magnolia capellinii2 sites
- Salix lesquereuxii2 sites
- Sequoia2 sites
- Acaciaphyllites grevilleoides1 site
- Andromeda euphorbiophylloides1 site
- Andromeda novaecaesareae1 site
- Andromeda parlatorii1 site
- Aralia cottondalensis1 site
- Bauhinia cretacea1 site
- Bauhinia marylandica1 site
- Brachyphyllum macrocarpum1 site
- Caealpinia middendorfensis1 site
- Calycites middendorfensis1 site
- Celastrophyllum grandifolium1 site
- Celastrophyllum undulatum1 site
- Cinnamomum middendorfensis1 site
- Cinnamomum newberryi1 site
- Cocculus cinnamomeus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pinus raritanensis, 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
2 references- Upper Cretaceous floras of the eastern Gulf region in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia1
- The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia1
Each of the 2 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 Pinus raritanensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pinus raritanensis 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 itPinus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Berry 1910