Apiaceae

Apiaceae, also called Umbelliferae, is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium, and commonly known as the celery, carrot, or parsley family, or as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants, with more than 3,800 species in about 446 genera, including such well-known, and economically important plants as ajwain, angelica, anise, asafoetida, caraway, carrot, celery, chervil, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, lovage, cow parsley, parsley, parsnip and sea holly, as well as silphium, a plant whose exact identity is unclear and which may be extinct.

Apiaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ApialesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 117 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 117 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 117 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 117 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 117 occurrencesPleistocene — about 71 of 117 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 25 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 65 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

117 occurrences of Apiaceae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

117 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

9 formations

Cullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WLaki — 23.53°N, 68.95°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.35°EDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSt. Marys — 38.16°N, 76.83°WBacons Castle — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSylhet — 25.21°N, 91.77°E

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The named rock units Apiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 104 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apiaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Apiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Apiaceae, 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

26 references

Each of the 117 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. 14 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 Apiaceae

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

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. Lindley 1836