Cupressaceae

Cupressaceae, the cypress family, is a family of conifers. The family includes 27–30 genera, which include the cypresses, junipers, and redwoods, with about 130–140 species in total. They are monoecious, subdioecious or (rarely) dioecious trees and shrubs up to 116 m (381 ft) tall. The bark of mature trees is commonly orange- to red-brown and of stringy texture, often flaking or peeling in vertical strips, but smooth, scaly or hard and square-cracked in some species. The family reached its peak of diversity during the Mesozoic era.

Cupressaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
cypressPBDB
Sits inside
ConiferalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1635 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 1635 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 16 of 1635 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 12 of 1635 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 37 of 1635 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 158 of 1635 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 266 of 1635 occurrencesEocene — about 310 of 1635 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 205 of 1635 occurrencesMiocene — about 468 of 1635 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 52 of 1635 occurrencesPleistocene — about 101 of 1635 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences196–189 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences189–182 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences175–168 Mya — about 14 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 3 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 5 occurrences147–140 Mya — about 5 occurrences140–133 Mya — about 3 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 6 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 14 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 17 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 15 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 11 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 24 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 47 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 115 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 205 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 161 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 67 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 69 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 95 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 137 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 124 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 297 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 191 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

1,635 occurrences of Cupressaceae 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

1,635 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

162 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.36°N, 108.06°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 108.05°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.03°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 44.21°N, 107.90°WFort Union — 44.16°N, 107.85°WFort Union — 44.27°N, 107.97°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 103.81°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.97°WFort Union — 42.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 41.33°N, 109.24°WFort Union — 41.16°N, 108.92°WFort Union — 41.14°N, 109.06°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 109.26°WFort Union — 41.52°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 41.46°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 46.44°N, 104.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 47.32°N, 106.92°WFort Union — 46.92°N, 103.52°WFort Union — 41.78°N, 107.23°WFort Union — 46.22°N, 108.40°WFort Union — 46.22°N, 108.32°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 44.15°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 41.23°N, 108.85°WFort Union — 43.90°N, 107.52°WFort Union — 43.47°N, 108.68°WFort Union — 48.40°N, 109.27°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 40.59°N, 107.69°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 110.67°WFort Union — 47.42°N, 105.58°WFort Union — 45.93°N, 105.87°WFort Union — 47.72°N, 104.15°WFort Union — 47.22°N, 104.67°WFort Union — 45.88°N, 104.55°WFort Union — 45.91°N, 106.22°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 108.08°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 106.20°WFort Union — 46.58°N, 105.88°WFort Union — 46.88°N, 104.93°WFort Union — 46.87°N, 105.44°WFort Union — 48.18°N, 110.12°WFort Union — 48.99°N, 105.27°WFort Union — 45.99°N, 109.72°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 104.70°WFort Union — 43.93°N, 108.65°WFort Union — 45.47°N, 103.21°WFort Union — 47.97°N, 102.55°WFort Union — 47.90°N, 102.82°WFort Union — 46.58°N, 112.51°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.17°N, 108.56°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.51°N, 108.25°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.18°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.14°WWillwood — 44.28°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.09°WWillwood — 44.40°N, 108.84°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 103.86°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.15°N, 103.82°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 104.96°WHell Creek — 45.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 45.65°N, 103.62°WHell Creek — 45.87°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 45.53°N, 101.63°WGolden Valley — 45.50°N, 103.25°WGolden Valley — 46.98°N, 102.05°WGolden Valley — 47.31°N, 102.11°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WGolden Valley — 46.75°N, 102.75°WGolden Valley — 47.13°N, 101.82°WGolden Valley — 46.92°N, 102.58°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 102.67°WGolden Valley — 48.48°N, 102.72°WGolden Valley — 47.62°N, 102.75°WGolden Valley — 47.82°N, 102.77°WGolden Valley — 47.37°N, 103.02°WGolden Valley — 47.38°N, 103.26°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WChloropagus — 39.79°N, 118.94°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EChallis Volcanics — 44.37°N, 114.24°WItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.32°N, 138.85°ESepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WSepulcher — 40.00°N, 110.00°WBearreraig Sandstone — 57.50°N, 6.13°WComox — 49.65°N, 125.07°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WDunvegan — 54.92°N, 121.42°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.00°N, 120.00°WDunvegan — 56.20°N, 120.93°WDunvegan — 55.72°N, 121.22°WDunvegan — 54.62°N, 118.47°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EJohn Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WJohn Day — 44.57°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.41°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.48°N, 112.68°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.78°N, 112.12°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.47°N, 112.77°WTullock — 47.14°N, 107.33°WTullock — 46.27°N, 106.68°WTullock — 46.42°N, 105.83°WTullock — 45.45°N, 105.40°WTullock — 45.37°N, 105.54°WTullock — 47.10°N, 104.72°WTullock — 39.49°N, 74.84°WWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°ELatah — 47.75°N, 117.55°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WLatah — 47.70°N, 116.75°WLatah — 47.56°N, 117.22°WLatah — 47.65°N, 117.21°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°WAllenby — 49.22°N, 119.96°WYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°ECretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WCretaceous — 43.21°N, 104.63°WCretaceous — 43.09°N, 104.53°WCheyenne Sandstone — 37.45°N, 99.08°W

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The named rock units Cupressaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 138 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 778 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupressaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cupressaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,199 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 754 sites for Cupressaceae, and this reads 240 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

223 references

Each of the 1,635 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. 211 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 Cupressaceae

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

No 3D scan of Cupressaceae 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

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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. Gray 1822