Annonaceae

The Annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas commonly known as the custard apple family or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, it is the largest family in the Magnoliales. Several genera produce edible fruit, most notably Annona, Anonidium, Asimina, Rollinia, and Uvaria. Its type genus is Annona. The family is concentrated in the tropics, with the only temperate genus being Asimina. Other than Asimina, 900 species are Neotropical, 450 are Afrotropical, and the remaining are Indomalayan.

Annonaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
custard applePBDB
Sits inside
MagnolialesPBDB
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 3 of 127 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 127 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 34 of 127 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 127 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 64 of 127 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 127 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 127 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 6 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 14 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

127 occurrences of Annonaceae 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

127 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

25 formations

London Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°ELower — 31.95°N, 76.27°ELower — 29.14°N, 80.19°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°ELower — 29.49°N, 78.76°EChangsheling — 23.75°N, 106.92°ENgorora — 0.88°N, 35.80°EOlduvai — 2.96°S, 35.31°ECerrejón — 11.13°N, 72.57°W"Upper" — 24.08°N, 117.58°ELance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WPirabas — 1.21°S, 47.16°WTikak Parbat — 27.29°N, 95.77°ETikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°EArung Khola — 27.75°N, 83.50°EArung Khola — 27.71°N, 83.94°EDeccan Intertrappean — 18.95°N, 72.80°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.86°N, 80.69°ECerro Pelado — 10.00°N, 71.00°WKaninah — 14.49°N, 48.35°EWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WMancora — 5.03°S, 80.16°WBakate — 4.27°N, 36.60°EFox Hills — 46.53°N, 100.47°WRockdale — 30.32°N, 97.30°WXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°ELiuqu — 29.17°N, 87.75°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EMidway — 29.26°N, 98.49°W

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The named rock units Annonaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Annonaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Annonaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,293 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Annonaceae, 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

50 references

Each of the 127 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. 38 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 Annonaceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. de Jussieu 1789