Araceae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonocotsPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 113 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 11.7 ka.
855 occurrences of Araceae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
855 occurrences- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceous8%
- Paleocene41%
- Eocene35%
- Oligocene6%
- Miocene8%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
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
64 formations
- Misoa Formation118
- Mirador Formation102
- Yaw Formation91
- Guasare Formation49
- Arcillas de el Limbo Formation48
- Fort Union Formation46
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The named rock units Araceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 138 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Araceae and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Araceae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
1,870 taxa- Laevigatosporites100 sites
- Deltoidospora80 sites
- Proxapertites operculatus74 sites
- Proxapertites57 sites
- Triporopollenites54 sites
- Verrucatosporites50 sites
- Discoidites49 sites
- Longapertites49 sites
- Liliacidites47 sites
- Tricolpites45 sites
- Acrostichum44 sites
- Cycadopites44 sites
- Cupuliferoipollenites42 sites
- Verrucatosporites usmensis42 sites
- Sapotaceoidaepollenites41 sites
- Cupanieidites40 sites
- Euphorbiaceae38 sites
- Azolla35 sites
- Gleicheniidites35 sites
- Pandaniidites typicus35 sites
- Dicolpopollis34 sites
- Rubiaceae34 sites
- Stereisporites34 sites
- Ulmipollenites krempii34 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 322 sites for Araceae, and this reads 240 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
71 references- Palaeofloristic and palaeovegetational changes across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in northern South America259
- Tretichnye Flory Zapadnoi Sibiri108
- A proto-monsoonal climate in the late Eocene of Southeast Asia: evidence from a sedimentary record in central Myanmar91
- Middle Paleogene palynology of Central Colombia, South America: A study of pollen and spores from tropical latitudes82
- Palynological contribution to geologic mapping of coal-bearing upper Paleocene rocks in the lower Indus coal region, Pakistan63
- Biostratigraphy of selected K/T boundary sections in southwestern North Dakota, USA: toward a refinement of palynological identification criteria32
- Palynological data from the Fort Union and Wasatch formations, Powder River basin, Wyoming and Montana24
- Megaflora of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in the western Dakotas: Vegetational response to climate change, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event, and rapid marine transgression16
- Palinología del entorno cretácico/paleógeno del SO de la provincia de Santa Cruz: significado estratigráfico y paleoambiental10
- Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin10
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants10
- Pollen from the K–Pg boundary of the La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina9
Each of the 855 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. 59 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 Araceae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Araceae 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.
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