Moraceae

Moraceae is a family of flowering plants comprising about 48 genera and over 1100 species, and is commonly known as the mulberry or fig family. Most are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less so in temperate climates; however, their distribution is cosmopolitan overall. The only common characteristics within the family are the presence of latex-producing glands in the leaves and stems, and milky sap in the soft tissues; but generally useful field characters include two carpels sometimes with one reduced, compound inconspicuous flowers, and compound fruits. The family includes well-known plants such as the common fig, breadfruit, jackfruit and mulberry. The 'flowers' of Moraceae are often pseudanthia.

Moraceae

Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public Domain · 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
mulberryPBDB
Sits inside
RosidsPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 161 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 505 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 505 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 505 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 505 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 110 of 505 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 84 of 505 occurrencesEocene — about 75 of 505 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 47 of 505 occurrencesMiocene — about 122 of 505 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 505 occurrencesPleistocene — about 48 of 505 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 17 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 8 occurrences89–83 Mya — about 8 occurrences83–77 Mya — about 17 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 21 occurrences71–65 Mya — about 46 occurrences65–59 Mya — about 49 occurrences59–53 Mya — about 36 occurrences53–48 Mya — about 15 occurrences48–42 Mya — about 21 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 25 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 16 occurrences30–24 Mya — about 33 occurrences24–18 Mya — about 29 occurrences18–12 Mya — about 50 occurrences12–5.9 Mya — about 44 occurrences5.9–0 Mya — about 62 occurrences161.5 Mya11.7 ka178 Mya0 Mya

505 occurrences of Moraceae 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

505 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

101 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 41.63°N, 107.55°WFort Union — 46.33°N, 108.45°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 45.18°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 44.77°N, 107.13°WFort Union — 44.90°N, 107.03°WFort Union — 46.17°N, 108.43°WFort Union — 42.75°N, 109.72°WFort Union — 46.57°N, 105.65°WFort Union — 46.88°N, 104.93°WFort Union — 46.80°N, 105.32°WFort Union — 45.15°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 44.25°N, 105.07°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 41.28°N, 109.19°WFort Union — 45.92°N, 101.55°WFort Union — 46.43°N, 105.24°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 108.87°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 103.88°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.98°WHell Creek — 46.13°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.95°WRaton — 37.40°N, 104.65°WRaton — 36.90°N, 104.43°WRaton — 36.97°N, 104.30°WRaton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WRaton — 37.10°N, 107.05°WRaton — 37.68°N, 104.18°WRaton — 37.00°N, 104.48°WRaton — 37.13°N, 104.85°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 33.88°N, 81.02°WBlack Creek — 33.53°N, 81.83°WBlack Creek — 34.30°N, 79.74°WBlack Creek — 34.30°N, 79.85°WIguincha — 3.40°S, 79.10°WIguincha — 3.00°S, 79.00°WIguincha — 3.33°S, 79.06°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 109.00°WSepulcher — 40.00°N, 110.00°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.10°N, 118.90°WDunvegan — 56.00°N, 120.00°WDunvegan — 59.00°N, 127.00°WDunvegan — 59.00°N, 118.27°WDunvegan — 55.71°N, 121.21°WDunvegan — 54.62°N, 118.47°WItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.32°N, 138.85°ELance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WDenver — 38.85°N, 104.66°WDenver — 39.43°N, 102.97°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WFrontier — 41.60°N, 110.55°WFrontier — 41.79°N, 110.54°WFrontier — 42.83°N, 108.73°WAnimas — 37.30°N, 107.50°WAnimas — 37.03°N, 107.20°WLower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.24°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WWasatch — 36.73°N, 108.22°WFerris — 41.83°N, 106.62°WEutaw — 32.41°N, 84.83°WEutaw — 32.25°N, 84.90°WEutaw — 32.88°N, 87.59°WMidway — 29.26°N, 98.49°WAckerman — 34.66°N, 89.10°WNubia — 25.42°N, 30.52°EHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WFort Union? — 43.02°N, 106.09°WFort Union? — 46.19°N, 101.30°WLower — 31.95°N, 76.27°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°E

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The named rock units Moraceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 178 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Moraceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Moraceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,931 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 297 sites for Moraceae, 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

103 references

Each of the 505 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. 91 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 Moraceae

Credit
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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