Olacaceae

Olacaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Santalales. They are woody plants, native throughout the tropical regions of the world. As of July 2021, the circumscription of the family varies; some sources maintain a broad family, others split it into seven segregate families.

Olacaceae

Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · 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
Sits inside
SantalalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.07 Mya13.82 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

12 occurrences of Olacaceae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12 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

4 formations

London Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ENgorora — 0.88°N, 35.80°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.23°N, 79.01°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°E

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The named rock units Olacaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Olacaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Olacaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

563 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Olacaceae, 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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. 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 Olacaceae

Credit
Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Olacaceae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itSantalales through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martinov 1818