Lamiaceae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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- Also called
- mintPBDB
- Sits inside
- LamialesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
27 occurrences of Lamiaceae 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
27 occurrences- Miocene19%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene42%
- Holocene30%
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
2 formations
- Olduvai Formation2
- Neyveli Formation · Cuddalore Group1
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The named rock units Lamiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lamiaceae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lamiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
506 taxa- Poaceae21 sites
- Cyperaceae19 sites
- Apiaceae17 sites
- Asteraceae17 sites
- Artemisia16 sites
- Alnus14 sites
- Caryophyllaceae14 sites
- Quercus14 sites
- Betula13 sites
- Liliaceae13 sites
- Plantago13 sites
- Fabaceae12 sites
- Salix12 sites
- Cerealia11 sites
- Oleaceae11 sites
- Abies10 sites
- Corylus10 sites
- Juglans10 sites
- Polygonum10 sites
- Rosaceae10 sites
- Carpinus9 sites
- Potamogeton9 sites
- Ulmus9 sites
- Urticaceae9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Lamiaceae, 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
10 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany16
- Niche evolution versus niche conservatism and habitat loss determine persistence and extirpation in late Neogene European Fagaceae2
- Tretichnye Flory Zapadnoi Sibiri2
- Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie1
- Análisis palinológico del Holoceno Tardío del sitio "Fortin Necochea" (Partido de Gral. Lamadrid, provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina)1
- Late-glacial vegetation and climate at the Manis mastodon site, Olympic Peninsula, Washington1
- Geology of the Olduvai Gorge1
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
- Fossil snakes from Olduvai,Tanzania1
- Miocenska Flora ze Starych Gliwic na Slasku (Miocene Flora of Stare Gliwice in Upper Silesia)1
Each of the 27 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. 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 Lamiaceae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Lamiaceae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLamiales through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martinov 1820