Rhamnaceae

The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales.

Rhamnaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
buckthornPBDB
Sits inside
RosalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 462 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 96 of 462 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 32 of 462 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 78 of 462 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 462 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 142 of 462 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 462 occurrencesPleistocene — about 67 of 462 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 8 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 8 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 28 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 32 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 16 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 9 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 11 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 12 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 11 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 13 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 14 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 18 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 13 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 11 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 8 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 15 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 27 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 63 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 22 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 20 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 78 occurrences110.1 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

462 occurrences of Rhamnaceae 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

462 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

99 formations

Hell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 46.09°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 45.65°N, 103.62°WHell Creek — 46.45°N, 103.98°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 45.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WWasatch — 41.91°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.69°N, 108.20°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 107.99°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WNgorora — 0.88°N, 35.80°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WChloropagus — 39.79°N, 118.94°WExtension — 49.00°N, 124.00°WJohn 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°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 40.59°N, 107.69°WFort Union — 44.06°N, 105.27°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 104.70°WProtection — 49.00°N, 124.00°WLower — 31.95°N, 76.27°ELower — 29.14°N, 80.19°ELower — 30.88°N, 76.95°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.86°N, 80.69°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.87°N, 78.20°ETuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WMerhten — 37.61°N, 120.59°WCoal Valley — 39.52°N, 119.99°WCoal Valley — 39.31°N, 119.65°WRaton — 36.92°N, 104.57°WRaton — 37.10°N, 107.05°WRaton — 37.17°N, 104.50°WRaton — 37.00°N, 104.48°WBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ETokoname — 34.88°N, 136.85°ETokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°EKoobi Fora — 3.85°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°E

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The named rock units Rhamnaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 182 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhamnaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rhamnaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,240 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 273 sites for Rhamnaceae, and this reads 240 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

106 references

Each of the 462 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. 94 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 Rhamnaceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Rhamnaceae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. Jussieu 1789