Ranunculaceae

Ranunculaceae, commonly called the buttercup family, is a large family of flowering plants, whose range is distributed worldwide.

Ranunculaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
buttercupPBDB
Sits inside
RanunculalesPBDB
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 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 181 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 181 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 181 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 181 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 40 of 181 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 37 of 181 occurrencesPleistocene — about 84 of 181 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 12 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 38 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 91 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

181 occurrences of Ranunculaceae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

181 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

10 formations

Hell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 103.89°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.82°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.35°ENorwich Crag — 52.31°N, 1.40°ECullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WKucha — 40.08°N, 94.83°EWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°EChangtai — 31.33°N, 98.83°ESanying — 26.51°N, 100.16°E

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The named rock units Ranunculaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 165 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ranunculaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ranunculaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,316 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Ranunculaceae, 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

35 references

Each of the 181 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. 23 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 Ranunculaceae

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

No 3D scan of Ranunculaceae 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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What may have been alongside itRanunculales through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jussieu 1789