Burseraceae

The Burseraceae are a moderate-sized family of 17-19 genera and about 540 species of woody flowering plants. The actual numbers given in taxonomic sources differ according to taxonomic revision at the time of writing. The Burseraceae are also known as the torchwood family, the frankincense and myrrh family, or simply the incense tree family. The family includes both trees and shrubs; its species are native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas.

Burseraceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 67 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 67 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 47 of 67 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 67 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 67 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 67 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 67 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 11 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

67 occurrences of Burseraceae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

67 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

18 formations

Yaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 50.93°N, 1.48°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.03°N, 79.11°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.23°N, 79.01°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EDeccan Intertrappean — 23.11°N, 80.61°EDeccan Intertrappean — 23.19°N, 80.70°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WTipam — 27.19°N, 95.47°ETipam — 24.68°N, 92.56°ECardiel — 48.78°S, 71.23°WCardiel — 48.81°S, 71.12°WGolden Valley — 47.31°N, 102.11°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WNkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EIone — 39.31°N, 120.96°WEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°EHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WBagshot — 50.72°N, 2.00°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WTikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°EKimin — 27.08°N, 93.65°ENanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°W

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The named rock units Burseraceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Burseraceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Burseraceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,393 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Burseraceae, and this reads all 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

27 references

Each of the 67 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. 15 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 Burseraceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Burseraceae 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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What may have been alongside itSapindales through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kunth 1824