Sapotaceae

The Sapotaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the order Ericales. The family includes approximately 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in about 65 genera. Their distribution is pantropical.

Sapotaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EricalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 205 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 205 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 205 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 95 of 205 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 205 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 57 of 205 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 205 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 205 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 68 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 18 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 19 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

205 occurrences of Sapotaceae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

205 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

25 formations

Yaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°ECerrejón — 11.13°N, 72.57°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EGatun — 9.27°N, 79.87°WAckerman — 34.66°N, 89.10°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WNgorora — 0.88°N, 35.80°ESan Sebastian — 18.29°N, 66.87°WSan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°ELower — 29.14°N, 80.19°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°ETipam — 27.19°N, 95.47°ETipam — 24.68°N, 92.56°ECalvert — 38.67°N, 76.70°WNkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EOropouche — 10.00°N, 61.00°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WAldrich Station — 38.49°N, 118.90°WHalf Three Point — 62.15°S, 58.73°WYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°EBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°W

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The named rock units Sapotaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sapotaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sapotaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,681 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Sapotaceae, and this reads all 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

48 references

Each of the 205 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. 36 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 Sapotaceae

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

No 3D scan of Sapotaceae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Jussieu 1789