Sequoites

Sequoites is an extinct genus of plant that existed from the Cretaceous until the Miocene across North America and Europe. Originally described as a coniferous tree in the genus Sequoia, it was later identified as a separate genus classified within Cupressaceae.

Sequoites

Skye McDavid · CC BY 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
ConiferalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Sequoites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

3 formations

Dunvegan — 55.72°N, 121.22°WDunvegan — 55.70°N, 121.63°WDunvegan — 55.57°N, 121.38°WBad Heart — 55.68°N, 120.10°WBrazeau — 53.00°N, 117.00°W

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

Sequoites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Sequoites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Sequoites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sequoites

Credit
Skye McDavid
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sequoites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itConiferales through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1849