Araliaceae

The Araliaceae are a family of flowering plants composed of about 47 genera and around 1500 species. They are primarily woody plants, along with some herbaceous plants commonly referred to as the ivy or ginseng family. The morphology of Araliaceae varies widely. It is predominantly distinguishable based on its woody habit, tropical distribution, and the presence of simple umbels.

Araliaceae

‘Uncle Carl’ (カールおじさん). · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 204 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 204 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 204 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 204 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 204 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 204 occurrencesMiocene — about 39 of 204 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 204 occurrencesPleistocene — about 53 of 204 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 6 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 8 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 8 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 6 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 23 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 15 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 62 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

204 occurrences of Araliaceae 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

204 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

30 formations

Sepulcher — 44.00°N, 111.00°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.24°N, 119.38°WDunvegan — 59.00°N, 118.27°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EBlackleaf — 47.96°N, 111.49°WBlackleaf — 48.30°N, 113.37°WCheyenne Sandstone — 37.45°N, 99.08°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.88°WHell Creek — 46.15°N, 103.82°WFrontier — 41.60°N, 110.55°WFrontier — 41.79°N, 110.54°WNeptune Glacier — 72.08°S, 68.50°WPatapsco — 37.38°N, 77.28°WBlack Creek — 34.61°N, 79.88°WBlack Creek — 34.31°N, 79.84°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ETura — 25.38°N, 90.22°ETura — 25.49°N, 90.77°ETuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ELamar River — 44.00°N, 110.00°WMountain Park? Luscar? — 49.60°N, 114.50°WLuscar? Mountain Park? — 49.50°N, 114.40°WCommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°WCretaceous — 43.21°N, 104.63°WFort Union — 49.04°N, 106.58°WZamek — 62.19°S, 58.45°WYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°E

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The named rock units Araliaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 136 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Araliaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Araliaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Araliaceae, 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

43 references

Each of the 204 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. 31 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 Araliaceae

Credit
‘Uncle Carl’ (カールおじさん).
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Araliaceae 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

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. Jussieu 1789