Asteraceae

Asteraceae is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger family is unclear as the number of extant species in each family is unknown. The Asteraceae were first described in the year 1740 and given the original name Compositae. The family is commonly known as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family.

Asteraceae

Alvesgaspar , Tony Wills (10) · 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
Also called
daisyPBDB
Sits inside
AsteralesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 560 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 560 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 560 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 560 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 560 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 63 of 560 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 44 of 560 occurrencesPleistocene — about 355 of 560 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 11 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 8 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 14 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 13 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 33 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 418 occurrences85.7 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

560 occurrences of Asteraceae 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

560 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

45 formations

Olduvai — 2.96°S, 35.31°EChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.50°S, 66.50°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.27°WMonte León — 50.13°S, 68.40°WMonte León — 50.21°S, 68.59°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.03°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.62°S, 68.43°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.14°WValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EChiquimil — 26.83°S, 66.00°WSan José — 26.71°S, 66.02°WSan José — 26.68°S, 65.83°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WLa Postrera — 38.17°S, 58.77°WBlue Clay — 40.47°N, 17.30°ECalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WAllen — 38.78°S, 67.93°WYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°EGreen River — 41.84°N, 109.35°WWasatch — 41.89°N, 108.04°W

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The named rock units Asteraceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 461 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asteraceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Asteraceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,618 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 287 sites for Asteraceae, and this reads 240 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

97 references

Each of the 560 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. 85 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 Asteraceae

Credit
Alvesgaspar , Tony Wills (10)
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Asteraceae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Berchtold and Presl 1820