Araucariaceae

Araucariaceae is a family of conifers with three living genera, Araucaria, Agathis, and Wollemia. While the family's native distribution is now largely confined to the Southern Hemisphere, except for a few species of Agathis in Malesia, it was formerly widespread in the Northern Hemisphere during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Araucariaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinidaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 382 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 2461 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 11 of 2461 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 104 of 2461 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 2461 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 11 of 2461 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 70 of 2461 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 117 of 2461 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 323 of 2461 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 358 of 2461 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 615 of 2461 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 421 of 2461 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 77 of 2461 occurrencesEocene — about 143 of 2461 occurrencesOligocene — about 39 of 2461 occurrencesMiocene — about 57 of 2461 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 2461 occurrencesPleistocene — about 106 of 2461 occurrences401–388 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences388–375 Mya — about 2 occurrences361–348 Mya — about 3 occurrences348–334 Mya — about 3 occurrences334–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences321–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–294 Mya — about 5 occurrences294–281 Mya — about 22 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 11 occurrences268–254 Mya — about 55 occurrences254–241 Mya — about 21 occurrences241–227 Mya — about 29 occurrences227–214 Mya — about 23 occurrences214–201 Mya — about 32 occurrences201–187 Mya — about 67 occurrences187–174 Mya — about 59 occurrences174–161 Mya — about 322 occurrences161–147 Mya — about 282 occurrences147–134 Mya — about 104 occurrences134–120 Mya — about 115 occurrences120–107 Mya — about 344 occurrences107–94 Mya — about 316 occurrences94–80 Mya — about 47 occurrences80–67 Mya — about 155 occurrences67–54 Mya — about 122 occurrences54–40 Mya — about 91 occurrences40–27 Mya — about 48 occurrences27–13 Mya — about 57 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 122 occurrences382.31 Mya129 ka401 Mya0 Mya

2,461 occurrences of Araucariaceae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

2,461 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

426 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WDunvegan — 55.94°N, 119.94°WDunvegan — 55.92°N, 118.59°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 55.22°N, 119.17°WDunvegan — 55.27°N, 118.63°WDunvegan — 55.78°N, 118.90°WDunvegan — 54.62°N, 118.47°WBhuj — 23.79°N, 68.85°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EBhuj — 23.28°N, 69.36°EBhuj — 23.22°N, 69.74°EBhuj — 23.10°N, 69.43°EBhuj — 23.68°N, 68.87°EBhuj — 23.18°N, 69.38°EBhuj — 23.31°N, 69.32°EBhuj — 23.48°N, 69.27°EBhuj — 23.39°N, 70.53°EBhuj — 23.37°N, 69.71°EBhuj — 23.20°N, 69.56°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.60°EBhuj — 23.08°N, 69.32°EJabalpur — 22.50°N, 78.50°EJabalpur — 23.11°N, 80.13°EJabalpur — 23.18°N, 79.95°EJabalpur — 22.61°N, 78.04°EJabalpur — 22.37°N, 77.61°EJabalpur — 22.32°N, 77.47°EJabalpur — 23.77°N, 81.47°EJabalpur — 23.78°N, 81.45°ESaltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.33°N, 0.50°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WTaratu — 43.18°S, 171.78°EChinle — 35.20°N, 108.20°WChinle — 37.70°N, 110.40°WChinle — 38.70°N, 110.20°WChinle — 36.10°N, 106.20°WChinle — 36.09°N, 111.36°WChinle — 36.07°N, 111.34°WChinle — 35.90°N, 111.29°WChinle — 35.80°N, 111.21°WChinle — 34.86°N, 109.78°WChinle — 34.81°N, 109.88°WHuitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WHuitrera — 40.67°S, 71.08°WHuitrera — 41.04°S, 71.20°WMuribeca — 10.65°S, 37.04°WBearreraig Sandstone — 57.50°N, 6.13°WBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°EAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°ECloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WBrazeau — 52.72°N, 116.00°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WKachaike — 49.15°S, 72.07°WKachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.03°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WKachaike — 48.46°S, 71.84°WShaftesbury — 56.13°N, 120.05°WShaftesbury — 55.22°N, 119.17°WShaftesbury — 55.27°N, 118.63°WShaftesbury — 55.78°N, 118.90°WRajmahal — 25.24°N, 87.71°ERajmahal — 25.08°N, 87.74°ERajmahal — 24.52°N, 87.57°ERajmahal — 25.14°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 25.21°N, 87.50°ERajmahal — 20.52°N, 85.63°ERajmahal — 24.65°N, 87.79°ERajmahal — 24.95°N, 87.28°EAllen — 38.78°S, 67.93°WAllen — 38.77°S, 68.01°WAllen — 39.44°S, 67.30°WApollonian — 4.98°N, 3.02°WBentiu — 11.03°N, 27.74°EKurnub Sandstone — 32.00°N, 35.76°EBentiu — 9.35°N, 29.13°EEagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°W

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The named rock units Araucariaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 402 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 714 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Araucariaceae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Araucariaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,346 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,264 sites for Araucariaceae, 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

462 references

Each of the 2,461 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. 450 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 content2

Picture of Araucariaceae

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Webysther Nunes
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3D model

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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. Henckel and Hochstetter 1865