Loranthaceae

Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestrial species are Nuytsia floribunda, Atkinsonia ligustrina, and Gaiadendron punctatum Loranthaceae are primarily xylem parasites, but their haustoria may sometimes tap the phloem, while Tristerix aphyllus is almost holoparasitic. For a more complete description of the Australian Loranthaceae, see Flora of Australia online Archived 2018-04-01 at the Wayback Machine, for the Malesian Loranthaceae see Flora of Malesia.

Loranthaceae

Franz Xaver · CC BY-SA 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
Also called
mistletoePBDB
Sits inside
SantalalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 163 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 29 of 163 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 45 of 163 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 43 of 163 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 163 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 163 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 163 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 163 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 10 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 13 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 16 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 16 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 19 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 8 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

163 occurrences of Loranthaceae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

163 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

32 formations

Yaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EMirador — 11.00°N, 72.38°WMirador — 10.88°N, 72.38°WGuasare — 11.00°N, 72.38°WZarga-Ghazal — 9.35°N, 29.13°ETurtel Mountain — 49.06°N, 100.56°WFort Union — 43.90°N, 105.20°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 43.30°N, 105.00°WFort Union — 43.60°N, 105.10°WFort Union — 43.50°N, 104.90°WScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WLisbon — 31.56°N, 87.90°WLisbon — 31.52°N, 84.11°WRío Turbio — 51.60°S, 72.30°WPiney Point — 37.66°N, 77.17°WPiney Point — 37.67°N, 77.14°WAbu Roash — 29.00°N, 29.00°EBaraka — 9.35°N, 29.13°EArcillas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°EMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°ETura — 25.38°N, 90.22°ETura — 25.29°N, 90.66°EEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°EMirador — 7.70°N, 72.62°WHalf Three Point — 62.23°S, 58.98°WBajo de la Carpa — 36.53°S, 69.65°WGongila — 10.12°N, 10.71°EMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°EHuitrera — 40.67°S, 71.08°W

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The named rock units Loranthaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Loranthaceae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Loranthaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,500 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Loranthaceae, 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

38 references

Each of the 163 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. 26 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 Loranthaceae

Credit
Franz Xaver
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Loranthaceae 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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