Zygophyllaceae

Searched as Caltrop. The Paleobiology Database treats Zygophyllaceae as the accepted name.

No picture of Zygophyllaceae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Zygophyllaceae itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zygophyllaceae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
caltropPBDB
Sits inside
ZygophyllalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 174 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 182.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 4 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 19 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 19 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 19 occurrences187–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence180–174 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences174.7 Mya11.7 ka187 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Zygophyllaceae 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

19 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

4 formations

Olduvai — 2.96°S, 35.31°EPhantom Creek — 53.42°N, 132.27°WLower — 29.15°N, 80.19°ETakli — 21.35°N, 78.99°E

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The named rock units Zygophyllaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zygophyllaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Zygophyllaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

313 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Zygophyllaceae, 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

8 references

Each of the 19 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. 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Zygophyllaceae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Zygophyllaceae itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zygophyllaceae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itZygophyllales through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1814