Platanus dissecta

Platanus dissecta is an extinct species of plane tree in the family Platanaceae. It is known from fossil leaves dating to the Miocene of western North America. The species was first described by Leo Lesquereux and was reexamined in 2019 to clarify its morphology and systematic affinities.

Platanus dissecta

Julie Kress · CC0 · 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
PlatanusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya38.4 Mya4.7 Mya

8 occurrences of Platanus dissecta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

8 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

4 formations

Renova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WModelo — 34.13°N, 118.43°W

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The named rock units Platanus dissecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platanus dissecta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Platanus dissecta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Platanus dissecta, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 Platanus dissecta

Credit
Julie Kress
Licence
CC0
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.

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What may have been alongside itPlatanus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesquereux 1878