Quercus semecarpifolia
Quercus semecarpifolia is an Asian species of oak. It is native to the Himalayas and nearby mountains, from eastern Afghanistan through Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, Tibet, and Myanmar to northern Thailand, where it is referred to as kharsu. It is classified in subgenus Cerris, section Ilex.
Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 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
- QuercusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Quercus semecarpifolia on record. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene20%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene73%
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
- Kimin Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Lower Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Quercus semecarpifolia 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.
Found in the same rock
139 taxa- Quercus dilatata3 sites
- Quercus ilex3 sites
- Trapa3 sites
- Trapa natans3 sites
- Typha3 sites
- Ulmus campestris3 sites
- Abies2 sites
- Acer2 sites
- Aesculus2 sites
- Asteraceae2 sites
- Ceratophyllum demersum2 sites
- Corylus2 sites
- Cyperaceae2 sites
- Ephedra2 sites
- Hedera helix2 sites
- Hedera nepalensis2 sites
- Lemna2 sites
- Litsea2 sites
- Myriophyllum2 sites
- Picea2 sites
- Pinus wallichiana2 sites
- Poaceae2 sites
- Populus2 sites
- Ranunculaceae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Quercus semecarpifolia, 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- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants2
- Floral diversity during Plio-Pleistocene Siwalik sedimentation (Kimin Formation) in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and its palaeoclimatic significance1
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany1
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 4: Cenozoic (Tertiary) Megafossils1
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 content1
Picture of Quercus semecarpifolia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Quercus semecarpifolia 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.
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. Smith 1814