Quercus (Heterobalanus)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- QuercusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
12 occurrences of Quercus (Heterobalanus) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Sanying Formation7
- Yebokangjiale Formation1
- Xigeda Formation1
- Wulong Formation1
- Xiaolongtan Formation1
- Yangyi Formation1
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The named rock units Quercus (Heterobalanus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Quercus (Heterobalanus) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Quercus (Heterobalanus) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Castanopsis3 sites
- Pinus3 sites
- Rhododendron3 sites
- Acer paxii2 sites
- Carpinus2 sites
- Cedrus2 sites
- Lithocarpus2 sites
- Picea2 sites
- Quercus aquifolioides2 sites
- Tsuga2 sites
- Acer1 site
- Actinodaphne dolichophylla1 site
- Alangium1 site
- Albizia1 site
- Alnus1 site
- Alnus nepalensis1 site
- Betula1 site
- Buxus pliosinica1 site
- Catalpa1 site
- Celtis bungeana1 site
- Cinnamomum scheuchzeri1 site
- Crataegus1 site
- Cyperaceae1 site
- Cyperacites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Quercus (Heterobalanus), 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- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China7
- Fossil leaves of Buxus (Buxaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of Yunnan, SW China1
- The occurrence of Quercus heqingensis n. sp. and its application to palaeo-CO2 estimates1
- Quercus yangyiensis sp. nov. from the late Pliocene of Baoshan, Yunnan and its paleoclimatic significance1
- Paleoclimatic estimation reveals a weak winter monsoon in southwestern China during the late Miocene: Evidence from plant macrofossils1
- A new Drynaria (Polypodiaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of Southwest China1
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 content0
No picture of Quercus (Heterobalanus) 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 Quercus (Heterobalanus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Quercus (Heterobalanus) 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 itQuercus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oersted 1984