Caprifoliaceae
The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade of dicotyledonous flowering plants consisting of about 860 species in 33 to 42 genera, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa.

Koyaanis Qatsi at English Wikipedia · Public Domain · 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
- honeysucklePBDB
- Sits inside
- DipsacalesPBDB
- 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.
143 occurrences of Caprifoliaceae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
143 occurrences- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceous7%
- Paleocene27%
- Eocene16%
- Oligocene4%
- Miocene18%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene17%
- Holocene3%
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
- Fort Union Formation24
- Guchengzi Formation5
- Motojuku Formation4
- Ravenscrag Formation4
- Golden Valley Formation3
- Itahana Formation · Tomioka Group3
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The named rock units Caprifoliaceae 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. 66 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Caprifoliaceae and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Caprifoliaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
1,436 taxa- Viburnum46 sites
- Alnus30 sites
- Quercus26 sites
- Ulmus24 sites
- Betula23 sites
- Acer22 sites
- Poaceae22 sites
- Salix22 sites
- Abies19 sites
- Corylus19 sites
- Fraxinus19 sites
- Carpinus18 sites
- Juglans18 sites
- Metasequoia occidentalis18 sites
- Picea18 sites
- Rhus18 sites
- Carya17 sites
- Cyperaceae17 sites
- Glyptostrobus europaeus17 sites
- Asteraceae16 sites
- Populus16 sites
- Potamogeton16 sites
- Ampelopsis acerifolia15 sites
- Artemisia15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Caprifoliaceae, 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
36 references- Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin20
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany19
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China14
- Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan12
- Paleoecological and Floristic Heterogeneity in the Plant-Fossil Record - An Analysis Based on the Eocene of Washington11
- Tretichnye Flory Zapadnoi Sibiri7
- Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains7
- Flora of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island, British Columbia5
- Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie4
- Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada4
- Die pliozaenen Floren von Thueringen, Deutsche Demokratische Republik4
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants4
Each of the 143 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. 24 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 Caprifoliaceae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Koyaanis Qatsi at English Wikipedia
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Caprifoliaceae 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. de Jussieu 1789