Magnoliophyta

Magnoliophyta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CycadophytanaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 2506 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2506 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2506 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2506 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 467 of 2506 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 753 of 2506 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 517 of 2506 occurrencesEocene — about 698 of 2506 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 2506 occurrencesMiocene — about 45 of 2506 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 2506 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 2506 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–131 Mya — about 4 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 8 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 53 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 215 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 187 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 223 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 95 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 97 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 182 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 365 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 381 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 279 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 219 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 134 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 14 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 22 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 21 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences205.7 Mya129 ka232 Mya0 Mya

2,506 occurrences of Magnoliophyta on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

2,506 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

150 formations

Misoa — 10.88°N, 72.38°WMisoa — 9.89°N, 71.32°WAgua Doce — 3.69°S, 44.56°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.94°N, 107.35°WSohnari — 25.73°N, 68.07°ESohnari — 25.75°N, 68.25°ESohnari — 25.12°N, 68.12°ESohnari — 25.25°N, 68.33°ESohnari — 25.17°N, 68.50°EYaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EMirador — 11.00°N, 72.38°WMirador — 10.88°N, 72.38°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 43.90°N, 105.20°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 105.30°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 106.00°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.00°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 105.10°WFort Union — 43.30°N, 105.00°WFort Union — 43.60°N, 105.10°WFort Union — 43.50°N, 104.90°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WSan Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WQueimadas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WPreguicas — 3.69°S, 44.56°WBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EBara — 25.73°N, 68.07°EBara — 25.75°N, 68.25°EBara — 24.80°N, 67.97°EBara — 25.89°N, 67.92°EArcillas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WMirador — 7.70°N, 72.62°WMirador — 8.98°N, 73.00°WAbu Roash — 30.93°N, 26.28°EAbu Roash — 30.99°N, 27.77°EAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EAbu Roash — 29.00°N, 29.00°EDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WLos Cuervos — 4.90°N, 73.02°WLos Cuervos — 8.98°N, 73.00°WLakhra — 25.73°N, 68.07°ELakhra — 25.75°N, 68.25°ELakhra — 25.25°N, 68.33°EHidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WCaballos — 2.62°N, 75.53°WScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WScollard — 51.91°N, 113.03°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WOcal — 2.62°N, 75.53°W

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The named rock units Magnoliophyta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 126 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 385 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Magnoliophyta and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Magnoliophyta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,681 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 746 sites for Magnoliophyta, 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

155 references

Each of the 2,506 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. 143 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 Magnoliophyta

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

No 3D scan of Magnoliophyta 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCycadophytanae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cronquist et al.