Sapindaceae

The Sapindaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales known as the soapberry family. It contains 138 genera and 1,858 accepted species. Examples include horse chestnut, maples, ackee and lychee.

Sapindaceae

Barry Fitzgerald, USDA · 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
Also called
soapberryPBDB
Sits inside
SapindalesPBDB
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 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1031 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 50 of 1031 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 1031 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 50 of 1031 occurrencesEocene — about 269 of 1031 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 120 of 1031 occurrencesMiocene — about 305 of 1031 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 54 of 1031 occurrencesPleistocene — about 151 of 1031 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 6 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 19 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 17 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 8 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 13 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 20 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 45 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 55 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 39 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 35 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 110 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 67 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 47 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 49 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 86 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 112 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 75 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 207 occurrences110.1 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

1,031 occurrences of Sapindaceae 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

1,031 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

141 formations

Yaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EJohn Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°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 — 44.57°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.30°N, 120.83°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.46°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.41°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 109.35°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.32°N, 138.85°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WCheyenne Sandstone — 37.45°N, 99.08°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.59°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.00°WFort Union — 43.50°N, 104.90°WFort Union — 45.15°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 41.71°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 46.32°N, 103.85°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°WAllenby — 49.22°N, 119.96°WAllenby — 49.47°N, 120.48°WBara — 25.73°N, 68.07°EBara — 25.75°N, 68.25°EBara — 24.80°N, 67.97°EBara — 25.89°N, 67.92°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WSepulcher — 40.00°N, 110.00°WPyramid — 39.90°N, 119.55°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WMonte León — 47.08°S, 66.39°WMonte León — 47.09°S, 66.01°WLakhra — 25.73°N, 68.07°ELakhra — 25.75°N, 68.25°EAspen Shale — 42.09°N, 110.51°WAspen Shale — 42.08°N, 110.16°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°W

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The named rock units Sapindaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 117 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 428 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sapindaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sapindaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,431 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 470 sites for Sapindaceae, 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

188 references

Each of the 1,031 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. 176 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 Sapindaceae

Credit
Barry Fitzgerald, USDA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sapindaceae 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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