Platycarya americana
No picture of Platycarya americana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Platycarya americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatycaryaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
34 occurrences of Platycarya americana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
34 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Platycarya americana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platycarya americana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Platycarya americana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Lygodium kaulfussi14 sites
- Dicotyledoneae12 sites
- Alnus11 sites
- Dombeya novimundi11 sites
- Zingiberopsis isonervosa9 sites
- Averrhoites affinis7 sites
- Salvinia preauriculata7 sites
- Apocynaceae6 sites
- Equisetum6 sites
- Magnoliales6 sites
- Sloanea6 sites
- Cyathea5 sites
- Populus5 sites
- Stillingia casca5 sites
- Cinnamomophyllum4 sites
- Hovenia4 sites
- Lauraceae4 sites
- Schoepfia republicensis4 sites
- Allantodiopsis erosa3 sites
- Allophylus3 sites
- aff. Sinomenium <RR08>2 sites
- Chaetoptelea microphylla2 sites
- Glyptostrobus europaeus2 sites
- Meliosma longifolia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Platycarya americana, 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
4 references- Late Paleocene-early Eocene climate changes in southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis29
- The Platycarya perplex and the evolution of the Juglandaceae2
- Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota2
- Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction1
Each of the 34 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
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No picture of Platycarya americana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Platycarya americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platycarya americana 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPlatycarya through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hickey 1977