Droseraceae

Droseraceae is a family of carnivorous flowering plants, also known as the sundew family. It consists of approximately 180 species in three extant genera, the vast majority being in the sundew genus Drosera. The family also contains the well-known Venus flytrap and the more obscure waterwheel plant, both of which are the only living species of their respective genera. Representatives of the Droseraceae are found on all continents except Antarctica.

Droseraceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 64 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 64 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 64 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 64 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 64 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 5 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences113.2 Mya2.58 Mya128 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Droseraceae 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

64 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

10 formations

Abu Roash — 30.93°N, 26.28°EAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EAbu Roash — 29.00°N, 29.00°EOdderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°EHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WLower Headon — 50.67°N, 1.53°WOldman — 50.76°N, 111.39°WPinodiga — 10.04°N, 11.20°EAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°ELa Meseta — 64.27°S, 56.67°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°ECherra — 25.32°N, 91.73°E

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The named rock units Droseraceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Droseraceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Droseraceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

647 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Droseraceae, 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

20 references

Each of the 64 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. 8 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 Droseraceae

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. NoahElhardt assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Droseraceae 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 itCaryophyllales through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salisbury 1808