Tetraclinis

Tetraclinis is a genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species, Tetraclinis articulata, also known as Thuja articulata, sandarac, sandarac tree or Barbary thuja, endemic to the western Mediterranean region, particularly in southern Europe and North Africa.

Tetraclinis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CupressaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesOligocene — about 15 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 38 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences27.3 Mya13.82 Mya34.4 Mya11.1 Mya

38 occurrences of Tetraclinis 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

38 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

1 formation

John Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°W

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The named rock units Tetraclinis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetraclinis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tetraclinis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

343 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tetraclinis, 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

9 references

Each of the 38 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 content1

Picture of Tetraclinis

Credit
Cs california
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tetraclinis 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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What may have been alongside itCupressaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Masters 1892