Magnoliaceae

Searched as Magnolia. The Paleobiology Database treats Magnoliaceae as the accepted name.

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east, south and southeast Asia and a secondary center in South America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in eastern North America.

Magnoliaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
magnoliaPBDB
Sits inside
MagnolialesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 414 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 57 of 414 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 48 of 414 occurrencesEocene — about 89 of 414 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 30 of 414 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 164 of 414 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 414 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 414 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–98 Mya — about 9 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 16 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 6 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 5 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 10 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 17 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 27 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 26 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 20 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 9 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 22 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 7 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 12 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 19 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 20 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 50 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 58 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 36 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences121.4 Mya129 ka128 Mya0 Mya

414 occurrences of Magnoliaceae 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

414 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

60 formations

London Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.46°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 41.57°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 43.87°N, 108.17°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 44.15°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 110.67°WFort Union — 47.22°N, 104.67°WFort Union — 46.17°N, 110.15°WYaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EDunvegan — 55.70°N, 121.17°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.00°N, 120.00°WDunvegan — 56.08°N, 120.17°WDunvegan — 59.00°N, 118.27°WDunvegan — 55.57°N, 121.38°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WRaton — 37.40°N, 104.65°WRaton — 36.97°N, 104.32°WRaton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WRaton — 37.10°N, 107.05°WRaton — 37.68°N, 104.18°WRaton — 37.17°N, 104.50°WRaton — 37.18°N, 104.57°WRaton — 37.15°N, 104.73°WRaton — 37.13°N, 104.85°WRaton — 36.80°N, 104.57°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 34.31°N, 79.84°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WAnimas — 37.27°N, 107.30°WAnimas — 37.03°N, 107.20°WWasatch — 41.91°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 108.00°WItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°ENaturita — 39.11°N, 109.14°WNaturita — 37.59°N, 111.98°WNaturita — 39.00°N, 109.00°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ELance — 43.09°N, 104.61°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.61°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ENacimiento — 36.79°N, 104.87°WDawson Arkose — 39.03°N, 104.30°WDawson Arkose — 39.06°N, 104.21°WRockdale — 30.32°N, 97.30°WEutaw — 32.41°N, 84.83°WLiuqu — 29.17°N, 87.75°E"Upper" — 24.08°N, 117.58°E

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The named rock units Magnoliaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 197 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Magnoliaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Magnoliaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,810 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 152 sites for Magnoliaceae, 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

69 references

Each of the 414 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. 57 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 content2

Picture of Magnoliaceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
AndreiV
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Jussieu 1789