Psidium

Psidium is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere. Many of the species bear edible fruits, and for this reason several are cultivated commercially. The most popularly cultivated species is the common guava, Psidium guajava.

Psidium

Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 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
Also called
guavaPBDB
Sits inside
MyrtaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 57.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.1–7.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.2–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–3.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56 Mya5.333 Mya59 Mya1 Mya

5 occurrences of Psidium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

5 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

2 formations

Fort Union — 46.91°N, 101.44°WRajdanda — 23.42°N, 84.13°E

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The named rock units Psidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Psidium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Psidium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Psidium, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Psidium

Credit
Forest & Kim Starr
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itMyrtaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753