Ulmus

Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward in Western Asia to Iran, in Africa to Libya, and in Southeast Asia into Indonesia.

Ulmus

Ptelea · CC BY-SA 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
elmPBDB
Sits inside
UlmaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 218 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 218 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 43 of 218 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 218 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 70 of 218 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 218 occurrencesPleistocene — about 37 of 218 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 8 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 17 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 21 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 43 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

218 occurrences of Ulmus 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

218 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

63 formations

John Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 110.40°WFort Union — 45.15°N, 105.68°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.18°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EKettle River — 49.05°N, 118.91°WLaoliangdi — 42.48°N, 118.62°ELaoliangdi — 42.30°N, 119.00°EShinao — 25.77°N, 104.65°EZhangcu — 37.08°N, 113.00°EKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WAllenby — 49.47°N, 120.48°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°WTranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EAldrich Station — 38.49°N, 118.90°WSalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSanmen — 37.75°N, 112.50°ESanmen — 34.92°N, 111.25°E

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The named rock units Ulmus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 95 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ulmus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ulmus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,621 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Ulmus, 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

63 references

Each of the 218 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. 51 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 Ulmus

Credit
Ptelea
Licence
CC BY-SA 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753