Flacourtiaceae

The Flacourtiaceae is a defunct family of flowering plants whose former members have been scattered to various families, mostly to the Achariaceae and Salicaceae. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it became a dumping ground for odd and anomalous genera, gradually making the family even more heterogeneous. In 1975, Hermann Sleumer noted that "Flacourtiaceae as a family is a fiction; only the tribes are homogeneous."

Flacourtiaceae

J.M.Garg · CC BY 3.0 · 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
ViolalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 56 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 56 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 19 of 56 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 56 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 56 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 56 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence66 Mya1.8 Mya74 Mya0 Mya

56 occurrences of Flacourtiaceae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

56 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

14 formations

Fort Union — 46.45°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 103.98°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.86°N, 80.69°EWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.18°WLower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°ESalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EReading — 51.33°N, 1.00°WBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.85°WArung Khola — 27.75°N, 83.50°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ETipam — 24.68°N, 92.56°E

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The named rock units Flacourtiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Flacourtiaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Flacourtiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Flacourtiaceae, 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

21 references

Each of the 56 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. 9 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 Flacourtiaceae

Credit
J.M.Garg
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Flacourtiaceae 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

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 itViolales through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Richard and Candolle 1824