Meliaceae

Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs in the order Sapindales.

Meliaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
mahoganyPBDB
Sits inside
SapindalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 155 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 155 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 57 of 155 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 155 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 49 of 155 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 155 occurrencesPleistocene — about 24 of 155 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 10 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 33 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 10 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

155 occurrences of Meliaceae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

155 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

29 formations

Yaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.86°N, 80.69°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.01°N, 78.60°EDeccan Intertrappean — 23.19°N, 80.70°EDeccan Intertrappean — 23.11°N, 80.61°EJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELower — 31.95°N, 76.27°ELower — 29.14°N, 80.19°ELower — 29.49°N, 78.76°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WCerrejón — 11.13°N, 72.56°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EKimin — 27.08°N, 93.65°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°EMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WChallis Volcanics — 44.37°N, 114.22°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WPirabas — 1.21°S, 47.16°WHalf Three Point — 62.15°S, 58.73°W

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The named rock units Meliaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 63 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meliaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Meliaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,646 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Meliaceae, 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

48 references

Each of the 155 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. 36 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 Meliaceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meliaceae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Jussieu 1789