Elaeocarpaceae

Elaeocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family contains approximately 615 species of trees and shrubs in 12 genera. The largest genera are Elaeocarpus, with about 350 species, and Sloanea, with about 120.

Elaeocarpaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 86 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 86 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 86 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 86 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 86 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 86 occurrencesPleistocene — about 46 of 86 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 49 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

86 occurrences of Elaeocarpaceae 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

86 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

11 formations

Wasatch — 41.91°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.82°N, 108.03°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 107.99°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.23°N, 79.01°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.47°N, 80.22°ECerrejón — 11.13°N, 72.56°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EGreen River — 41.84°N, 109.35°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°EZamek — 62.19°S, 58.45°WCerro Bororó — 43.63°S, 67.72°WTipam — 24.68°N, 92.56°E

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The named rock units Elaeocarpaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elaeocarpaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Elaeocarpaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Elaeocarpaceae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

19 references

Each of the 86 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. 7 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 Elaeocarpaceae

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 Candolle 1816