Pinus roxburghii
Pinus roxburghii, commonly known as chir pine or longleaf Indian pine, is a species of pine tree native to the Himalayas. It was named after William Roxburgh. It used to have a larger distribution reaching as far Gujarat.

Treesftf at 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
- chir pinePBDB
- Sits inside
- PinusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Pinus roxburghii on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
12 occurrences- Pleistocene42%
- Holocene59%
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.
Pinus roxburghii and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Pinus roxburghii and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
182 taxa- Cyperaceae12 sites
- Poaceae12 sites
- Artemisia11 sites
- Asteraceae11 sites
- Potamogeton11 sites
- Abies10 sites
- Alnus10 sites
- Cerealia10 sites
- Polygonum10 sites
- Rosaceae10 sites
- Liliaceae9 sites
- Quercus9 sites
- Ulmus9 sites
- Urticaceae9 sites
- Apiaceae8 sites
- Betula8 sites
- Carpinus8 sites
- Caryophyllaceae8 sites
- Corylus8 sites
- Fabaceae8 sites
- Juglans8 sites
- Lamiaceae8 sites
- Nymphaea8 sites
- Pinus wallichiana8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pinus roxburghii, 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
1 referenceEach of the 12 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Pinus roxburghii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Treesftf at Flickr
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPinus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sargent 1897