Nyssaceae

Nyssaceae is a family of flowering trees sometimes included in the dogwood family (Cornaceae). Nyssaceae is composed of 37 known species in the following five genera:Camptotheca, the happy trees: two species in China Davidia, the dove tree, handkerchief tree, or ghost tree: one species in central China Diplopanax: two species in southern China and Vietnam Mastixia: about nineteen species from South and Southeast Asia to New Guinea and Solomon Islands Nyssa, the tupelos: about 7–10 species in eastern North America and East to Southeast Asia

Nyssaceae

Jay Sturner from USA · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Sits inside
CornalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 206 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 206 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 22 of 206 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 29 of 206 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 41 of 206 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 93 of 206 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 206 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 206 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 9 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 7 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 21 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 20 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 42 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences66 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

206 occurrences of Nyssaceae 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

206 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

35 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 108.55°WFort Union — 48.15°N, 104.92°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 108.08°WFort Union — 46.41°N, 105.84°WFort Union — 46.57°N, 105.65°WFort Union — 47.30°N, 104.52°WFort Union — 46.37°N, 102.33°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ESan Sebastian — 18.30°N, 66.88°WSan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.70°WDenver — 39.43°N, 102.97°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WRaton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WRaton — 37.17°N, 104.50°WRaton — 37.15°N, 104.62°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°ETokoname — 34.88°N, 136.85°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WBovey Tracey Lignite — 50.58°N, 3.68°WTienen — 50.78°N, 5.08°EBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WDawson Arkose — 39.03°N, 104.30°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WFerris — 41.75°N, 106.63°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WJavelina — 29.40°N, 103.20°W

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The named rock units Nyssaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 141 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nyssaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nyssaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,660 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Nyssaceae, 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

47 references

Each of the 206 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. 35 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 Nyssaceae

Credit
Jay Sturner from USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nyssaceae 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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