Rhizophoraceae

The Rhizophoraceae is a family of tropical or subtropical flowering plants. It includes around 147 species distributed in 15 genera. Under the family, there are three tribes, Rhizophoreae, Gynotrocheae, and Macarisieae. Even though Rhizophoraceae is known for its mangrove members, only the genera under Rhizophoreae grow in the mangrove habitats and the remaining members live in inland forests.

Rhizophoraceae

Marshman at English Wikipedia / Eric Guinther · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MalpighialesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 83 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 83 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 83 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 11 of 83 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 83 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 83 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 83 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 83 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 13 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–3.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

83 occurrences of Rhizophoraceae 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

83 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

13 formations

San Sebastian — 18.30°N, 66.88°WSan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.87°WGatun — 9.13°N, 79.95°WCucaracha — 9.02°N, 79.63°WLa Boca — 9.07°N, 79.67°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ENimar Sandstone — 22.37°N, 74.77°ENimar Sandstone — 22.32°N, 74.83°EOropouche — 10.00°N, 61.00°WBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°EMcBean — 33.45°N, 82.20°WTikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°E

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The named rock units Rhizophoraceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhizophoraceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rhizophoraceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

627 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Rhizophoraceae, 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

19 references

Each of the 83 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. 7 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 Rhizophoraceae

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Marshman at English Wikipedia / Eric Guinther
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No 3D scan of Rhizophoraceae 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

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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. Persoon 1807