Pinus wallichiana
Pinus wallichiana is a coniferous evergreen tree native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern Afghanistan east across northern Pakistan and north west India to Yunnan in southwest China. It grows in mountain valleys at altitudes of 1800–4300 m, reaching large sizes from 30–50 m (98–164 ft) in height. It favours a temperate climate with dry winters and wet summers. In Pashto, it is known as Nishtar.

Moskenes · CC BY-SA 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- Also called
- blue pinePBDB
- Sits inside
- PinusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
19 occurrences of Pinus wallichiana on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
19 occurrences- Pleistocene74%
- Holocene26%
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 wallichiana and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pinus wallichiana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
280 taxa- Poaceae19 sites
- Ulmus19 sites
- Abies18 sites
- Alnus17 sites
- Cyperaceae17 sites
- Quercus17 sites
- Asteraceae16 sites
- Corylus16 sites
- Rosaceae16 sites
- Artemisia15 sites
- Juglans15 sites
- Betula14 sites
- Potamogeton14 sites
- Apiaceae13 sites
- Carpinus13 sites
- Caryophyllaceae13 sites
- Picea13 sites
- Salix13 sites
- Typha13 sites
- Cedrus12 sites
- Botryococcus11 sites
- Myriophyllum11 sites
- Rhus11 sites
- Lemna10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Pinus wallichiana, 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 19 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 wallichiana
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Moskenes
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pinus wallichiana 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 itPinus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jackson 1938