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Platanites is an extinct genus of plane tree (sycamore relatives) known only from fossils from the Late Cretaceous through the Eocene, found in North America and Europe. Nothing here is grown as a garden plant; the care fields below describe its living relatives, the modern plane trees (Platanus).
Platanites is a genus of extinct plane tree (sycamore) that existed during the Late Cretaceous as well as the Paleocene and Eocene. Fossils are known from North America and Europe.
Fossils are known from Scotland (such as in the Ardtun Leaf Beds), Montana (such as in the Hell Creek, Ravenscrag and Fort Union Formations), South Dakota (such as in the Hell Creek Formation), North Dakota (such as in the Hell Creek and Fox Hills Formations), Utah (such as in the Green River Formation), New Mexico (such as in the Nacimiento and Ojo Alamo Formations), Wyoming (such as in the Eagle and Aycross Formations), Oregon (such as in the Clarno Formation) and Colorado (such as in the Denver and Green River Formations). A possible species is known from Poland.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Platanites by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
