Cornaceae

The Cornaceae, the dogwood family, are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales. The family contains approximately 85 species in two genera, Alangium and Cornus. They are mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen, although a few species are perennial herbs. Members of the family usually have opposite or alternate simple leaves, four- or five-parted flowers clustered in inflorescences or pseudanthia, and drupaceous fruits. The family is primarily distributed in northern temperate regions and tropical Asia. In northern temperate areas, Cornaceae are well known from the dogwoods Cornus.

Cornaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 334 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 334 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 73 of 334 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 53 of 334 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 66 of 334 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 99 of 334 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 334 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 334 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 12 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 21 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 23 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 13 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 27 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 10 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 8 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 8 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 8 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 17 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 18 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 25 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 16 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 21 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 35 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 17 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences66 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

334 occurrences of Cornaceae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

334 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

35 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.32°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 46.91°N, 101.44°WFort Union — 46.39°N, 103.96°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.98°WFort Union — 42.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 109.26°WFort Union — 41.52°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 41.17°N, 108.89°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.99°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.82°WFort Union — 44.77°N, 107.13°WFort Union — 48.08°N, 105.63°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 43.03°N, 106.98°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 110.67°WFort Union — 47.72°N, 104.15°WFort Union — 41.28°N, 109.19°WFort Union — 41.71°N, 108.62°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 52.02°N, 1.43°ELondon Clay — 51.45°N, 0.13°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.75°WBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WRavenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.57°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.46°WGolden Valley — 46.88°N, 102.78°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WHell Creek — 46.43°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.15°N, 103.81°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ETuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°ELance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WCretaceous — 43.21°N, 104.63°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WAkima — 36.00°N, 139.00°E

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The named rock units Cornaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 184 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cornaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cornaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,568 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Cornaceae, 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

58 references

Each of the 334 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. 46 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 Cornaceae

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Lapplaender
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CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cornaceae 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

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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. Dumortier 1825