Sequoia sempervirens

Sequoia sempervirens, the coast redwood, is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. Other common names include coastal redwood and California redwood. It is a coniferous, long-lived, monoecious tree that has reached ages of about 2,000 years. The species has produced the tallest living trees on Earth, reaching up to 116.22 m (381.3 ft) in height and up to 8.9 m (29 ft) in diameter at breast height. These trees are also among the longest-living trees on Earth.

Sequoia sempervirens

Acroterion · 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
Also called
coast redwoodPBDB
Sits inside
SequoiaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At most 64 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–36 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 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67 Mya1 Mya

3 occurrences of Sequoia sempervirens 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

3 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

Tokoname — 34.88°N, 136.85°ETokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°E

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The named rock units Sequoia sempervirens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sequoia sempervirens and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sequoia sempervirens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sequoia sempervirens, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Sequoia sempervirens

Credit
Acroterion
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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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What may have been alongside itSequoia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Don 1824)