Syzygium

Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1200 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific. Its highest levels of diversity occur from Malaysia to northeastern Australia, where many species are very poorly known and many more have not been described taxonomically. One indication of this diversity is in leaf size, ranging from as little as a half inch to as great as 4 ft 11 inches by 16 inches in Syzygium acre of New Caledonia.

Syzygium

Forest & Kim Starr · 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
bush cherryPBDB
Sits inside
MyrtaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 61 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 61 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 61 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 61 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 61 occurrencesPleistocene — about 41 of 61 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–7.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.6–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 14 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

61 occurrences of Syzygium on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

61 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

8 formations

Morwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EOlduvai — 2.96°S, 35.31°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°ERelu — 30.07°N, 100.30°EMangbang — 24.69°N, 98.63°EHarudi — 23.65°N, 68.66°E

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The named rock units Syzygium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Syzygium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Syzygium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

851 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Syzygium, 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

12 references

Each of the 61 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 content2

Picture of Syzygium

Credit
Forest & Kim Starr
Licence
CC BY 3.0
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 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.

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What may have been alongside itMyrtaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Browne and Gaertner 1788