Platycarya
Platycarya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae native to eastern Asia in China, Korea, and Japan.

Kurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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- Sits inside
- JuglandaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 78 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
138 occurrences of Platycarya on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
138 occurrences- Late Cretaceous2%
- Paleocene4%
- Eocene89%
- Miocene4%
- Plioceneunder 1%
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
26 formations
- Wasatch Formation48
- Willwood Formation27
- Okinoyama Formation · Ube Group6
- Nanjemoy Formation6
- Bashi Formation5
- Golden Valley Formation4
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The named rock units Platycarya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Platycarya and its relatives
EoceneWhere Platycarya and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
676 taxa- Alnus44 sites
- Dicotyledoneae38 sites
- Lygodium kaulfussi38 sites
- Dombeya novimundi35 sites
- Carya29 sites
- Intratriporopollenites20 sites
- Zingiberopsis isonervosa20 sites
- Triatriopollenites19 sites
- Glyptostrobus europaeus18 sites
- Cyathea17 sites
- Platycaryapollenites swasticoidus17 sites
- Triporopollenites17 sites
- Casuarinidites16 sites
- Nudopollis terminalis16 sites
- Betula15 sites
- Plicatopollis14 sites
- Salvinia preauriculata14 sites
- <Momipites-Plicatopollis-Platycaryapollenites complex>13 sites
- Alnipollenites verus13 sites
- Laevigatosporites13 sites
- Momipites13 sites
- Momipites microfoveolatus13 sites
- <Bisaccate pollen>12 sites
- Equisetum12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 124 sites for Platycarya, 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
23 references- Late Paleocene-early Eocene climate changes in southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis36
- Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin30
- Paleogene Sporomorph Biostratigraphy, Northeastern Virginia13
- Palynological data from the Fort Union and Wasatch formations, Powder River basin, Wyoming and Montana12
- Sporomorph biostratigraphy, floral changes, and paleoclimatology, Eocene and Earliest Oligocen of the eastern Gulf Coast8
- The Eocene flora of the Ube coal-field, southwest Honshu, Japan6
- Upper Paleocene and Lowermost Eocene Angiosperm Pollen Biostratigraphy of the Eastern Gulf Coast and Virginia5
- Taxonomy and Biostratigraphy of Late Cretaceous and Paleogene Triatriate Pollen from South Carolina4
- Paleoecological and Floristic Heterogeneity in the Plant-Fossil Record - An Analysis Based on the Eocene of Washington3
- Chandler, 19613
- Presencia de dinosaurios en la Barranca Los Bonetes en el sur de México (Región de Tiquicheo, Estado de Michoacán) y sus implicaciones cronoestratigráficas [Presence of dinosaurs in the Barranca Los Bonetes in southern Mexico (Tiquicheo region, Michoacán state) and their chronostratigraphic implications]2
- Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan2
Each of the 138 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. 11 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 content1
Picture of Platycarya
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kurt Stüber [1]
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Platycarya 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Platycarya”
- 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 itJuglandaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Siebold and Zuccarini 1843