Prumnopitys

Prumnopitys is a genus of conifers in the family Podocarpaceae. It includes three species of densely branched, dioecious evergreen trees up to 40 metres in height, native to South America and New Zealand.

Prumnopitys

Mark Roper · CC BY 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
Sits inside
PodocarpaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48.07 Mya23.04 Mya102 Mya14 Mya

12 occurrences of Prumnopitys 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

12 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

3 formations

Taratu — 45.37°S, 170.45°ETaratu — 43.18°S, 171.78°EDemon Bluff — 38.42°S, 144.18°EFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°E

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The named rock units Prumnopitys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prumnopitys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Prumnopitys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Prumnopitys, 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 12 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 Prumnopitys

Credit
Mark Roper
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 itPodocarpaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Philippi 1860