Podocarpus

Podocarpus is a genus of conifers, the most numerous and widely distributed of the podocarp family, the Podocarpaceae. Podocarpus species are evergreen shrubs or trees, usually from 1 to 25 m tall, known to reach 40 m (130 ft) at times. The cones have two to five fused cone scales, which form a fleshy, berry-like, brightly coloured receptacle at maturity. The fleshy cones attract birds, which then eat the cones and disperse the seeds in their droppings. Plants of the World Online accepts 116 species. Other authorities place 97 to 107 species in the genus depending on the circumscription of the species.

Podocarpus

Kahuroa · Public Domain · 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
PodocarpaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 146 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 146 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 146 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 146 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 146 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 146 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 146 occurrencesEocene — about 37 of 146 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 146 occurrencesMiocene — about 21 of 146 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 146 occurrencesPleistocene — about 51 of 146 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 4 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 14 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 11 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 11 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 7 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 60 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka232 Mya0 Mya

146 occurrences of Podocarpus 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

146 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

26 formations

Olduvai — 2.96°S, 35.31°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EKuwajima — 36.17°N, 136.63°EHuitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WHalf Three Point — 62.23°S, 58.98°WHalf Three Point — 62.15°S, 58.73°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°EElandsfontyn — 33.97°S, 18.12°ESan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.87°WKirkwood — 34.00°S, 25.00°EKirkwood — 34.00°S, 22.00°ECalvert — 38.67°N, 76.70°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ELusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EKovachinskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EOkurodani — 36.05°N, 136.88°EBatylykh — 62.73°N, 117.61°EZamek — 62.19°S, 58.45°WLigorio Márquez — 36.77°S, 71.83°WDemon Bluff — 38.42°S, 144.18°EMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°EMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°ETikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°E

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The named rock units Podocarpus 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. 95 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Podocarpus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Podocarpus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,367 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 124 sites for Podocarpus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

53 references

Each of the 146 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. 41 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 content2

Picture of Podocarpus

Credit
Kahuroa
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. L'Heritier and Persoon 1807