Symplocos

Symplocos is a genus of flowering plants in the order Ericales, and is the only genus in family Symplocaceae. It comprises about 400 species distributed through tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia, the western Pacific and the Americas.

Symplocos

Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini · Public Domain · 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
SymplocaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 315 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 315 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 47 of 315 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 315 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 194 of 315 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 315 occurrencesPleistocene — about 35 of 315 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 7 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 32 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 60 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 30 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 30 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 23 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

315 occurrences of Symplocos 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

315 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

21 formations

Lisbon — 31.56°N, 87.90°WLisbon — 31.52°N, 84.11°WTallahatta — 31.56°N, 87.91°WTallahatta — 31.48°N, 85.27°WTallahatta — 31.52°N, 84.11°WTallahatta — 32.33°N, 88.78°WPiney Point — 37.66°N, 77.17°WPiney Point — 37.67°N, 77.14°WBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ETokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°EBovey Tracey Lignite — 50.58°N, 3.68°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WWinona — 32.22°N, 88.84°WKosciusko — 32.02°N, 88.70°WChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOhoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°EGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WOldhaven — 50.78°N, 0.08°ENanafalia — 32.76°N, 88.77°WBashi — 32.35°N, 88.70°WJackson — 36.42°N, 89.56°WCockfield — 36.42°N, 89.56°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°W

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The named rock units Symplocos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 267 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Symplocos and its relatives

Miocene

Where Symplocos and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,486 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Symplocos, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

32 references

Each of the 315 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. 20 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 content2

Picture of Symplocos

Credit
Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Symplocos trisulcata · usnm:paleobiology:pal722020

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. Jacquin 1760