Anacardiaceae

The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family or sumac family, are a family of flowering plants, including about 83 genera with about 860 known species. Members of the Anacardiaceae bear fruits that are drupes and in some cases produce urushiol, an irritant. The Anacardiaceae include numerous genera, several of which are economically important, notably cashew, mango, Chinese lacquer tree, yellow mombin, Peruvian pepper, sumac, smoke tree, marula, and cuachalalate. The genus Pistacia is now included, but was previously placed in its own family, the Pistaciaceae.

Anacardiaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
cashewPBDB
Sits inside
SapindalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 388 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 388 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 388 occurrencesEocene — about 131 of 388 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 45 of 388 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 128 of 388 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 388 occurrencesPleistocene — about 49 of 388 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–66 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 11 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 18 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 20 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 16 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 21 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 51 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 19 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 16 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 15 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 19 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 47 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 33 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 24 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 66 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

388 occurrences of Anacardiaceae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

388 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

65 formations

Yaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.45°N, 0.13°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°EGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 109.35°WGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 110.70°WTipam — 25.77°N, 93.39°ETipam — 24.68°N, 92.56°ETipam — 27.26°N, 95.40°ETipam — 24.36°N, 92.52°ETipam — 27.19°N, 95.47°EClarno — 44.74°N, 120.47°WClarno — 44.58°N, 120.25°WClarno — 44.74°N, 120.42°WLower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°ECoatzingo — 18.59°N, 97.93°WJohn Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.46°WLower — 29.14°N, 80.19°ELower — 31.01°N, 76.73°ELower — 29.49°N, 78.76°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.23°N, 79.01°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.86°N, 80.69°EDeccan Intertrappean — 23.11°N, 80.61°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WBagshot — 50.72°N, 2.00°WKoobi Fora — 3.85°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EOlduvai — 2.96°S, 35.31°ESan José — 26.71°S, 66.02°WSan José — 26.68°S, 65.83°WSan José — 26.86°S, 65.71°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°ECretaceous — 43.21°N, 104.63°WCretaceous — 43.09°N, 104.51°WCerrejón — 11.13°N, 72.56°WChiquimil — 26.88°S, 66.03°WChiquimil — 27.19°S, 66.84°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.51°W

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The named rock units Anacardiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 182 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anacardiaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Anacardiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,004 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 223 sites for Anacardiaceae, 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

102 references

Each of the 388 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. 90 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 content1

Picture of Anacardiaceae

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Vinayaraj
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anacardiaceae 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

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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. Brown 1818