Fagaceae

The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with around 1,000 or more species. Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species occur as evergreen trees and shrubs. They are characterized by alternate simple leaves with pinnate venation, unisexual flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of cup-like (cupule) nuts. Their leaves are often lobed, and both petioles and stipules are generally present. Their fruits lack endosperm and lie in a scaly or spiny husk that may or may not enclose the entire nut, which may consist of one to seven seeds. In the oaks, genus Quercus, the fruit is a non-valved nut called an acorn. The husk of the acorn in most oaks only forms a cup in which the nut sits. Other members of the family have fully enclosed nuts.

Fagaceae

Fagus_sylvatica_020.jpg : Willow derivative work: Bff ( talk ) · CC BY 2.5 · 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
Sits inside
FagalesPBDB
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.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1214 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 1214 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 33 of 1214 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 91 of 1214 occurrencesEocene — about 234 of 1214 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 98 of 1214 occurrencesMiocene — about 419 of 1214 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 123 of 1214 occurrencesPleistocene — about 192 of 1214 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–92 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 6 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 29 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 44 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 39 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 34 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 43 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 44 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 92 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 47 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 43 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 49 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 84 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 196 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 115 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 321 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

1,214 occurrences of Fagaceae 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

1,214 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

141 formations

Fort Union — 45.18°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 43.75°N, 105.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 43.87°N, 108.17°WFort Union — 44.90°N, 107.03°WFort Union — 43.03°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 40.59°N, 107.69°WFort Union — 46.57°N, 105.65°WFort Union — 45.91°N, 106.22°WFort Union — 46.88°N, 104.93°WFort Union — 48.18°N, 110.12°WFort Union — 45.37°N, 105.54°WFort Union — 42.81°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 44.29°N, 108.82°WFort Union — 41.28°N, 109.19°WFort Union — 47.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 46.92°N, 103.83°WFort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.83°N, 106.09°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 106.06°WFort Union — 45.55°N, 105.72°WYaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°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 — 44.30°N, 120.83°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.46°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.41°WSanying — 26.42°N, 99.40°ESanying — 26.02°N, 100.00°ESanying — 26.51°N, 100.16°ESanying — 26.57°N, 100.13°ESanying — 25.51°N, 99.52°EXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°EXiaolongtan — 25.42°N, 102.85°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WChloropagus — 39.79°N, 118.94°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 109.00°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WLatah — 47.75°N, 117.55°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WLatah — 47.70°N, 116.75°WLatah — 47.65°N, 117.21°WBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EHuitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WOgawa — 36.50°N, 138.00°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°ETemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WWasatch — 41.91°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WWasatch — 44.63°N, 106.17°WWasatch — 44.71°N, 106.17°WSayama — 35.78°N, 139.38°EYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°ECalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.70°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WNanlin — 25.12°N, 98.83°EMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°E

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The named rock units Fagaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 117 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 548 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fagaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Fagaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,629 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 525 sites for Fagaceae, 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

165 references

Each of the 1,214 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. 153 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 Fagaceae

Credit
Fagus_sylvatica_020.jpg : Willow derivative work: Bff ( talk )
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No 3D scan of Fagaceae 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 1829