Salix

Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species of typically deciduous trees and shrubs. They are primarily found on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.

Salix

Bruce Marlin · 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
willowPBDB
Sits inside
SalicaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 378 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 378 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 34 of 378 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 378 occurrencesEocene — about 31 of 378 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 30 of 378 occurrencesMiocene — about 180 of 378 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 37 of 378 occurrencesPleistocene — about 52 of 378 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 8 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 8 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 15 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 15 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 13 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 16 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 38 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 84 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 50 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 90 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

378 occurrences of Salix on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

378 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

65 formations

Chloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WChloropagus — 39.79°N, 118.94°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 33.88°N, 81.02°WBlack Creek — 33.53°N, 81.83°WBlack Creek — 33.71°N, 81.78°WBlack Creek — 34.31°N, 79.84°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.36°WLatah — 47.70°N, 116.75°WOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOgawa — 36.50°N, 138.00°ESepulcher — 40.00°N, 110.00°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WCoal Valley — 39.52°N, 119.99°WCoal Valley — 39.31°N, 119.65°WLance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.61°WPyramid — 39.90°N, 119.55°WSan Joaquin — 36.00°N, 120.06°WAldrich Station — 38.49°N, 118.90°WFrontier — 41.60°N, 110.55°WFrontier — 41.79°N, 110.54°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.24°WDisaster Peak — 38.50°N, 120.00°WMerhten — 37.61°N, 120.59°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WEutaw — 32.41°N, 84.83°WEutaw — 32.25°N, 84.90°W

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The named rock units Salix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 129 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Salix and its relatives

Miocene

Where Salix and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 182 sites for Salix, 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

79 references

Each of the 378 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. 67 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 content1

Picture of Salix

Credit
Bruce Marlin
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Salix 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. Linnaeus 1753