Taxaceae

Taxaceae, the yew family, is a family of coniferous trees and shrubs which includes six extant and two extinct genera, and about 30 species of plants, or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 species.

Taxaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
yewPBDB
Sits inside
PinalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 305 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 637 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 637 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 95 of 637 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 15 of 637 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 637 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 13 of 637 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 57 of 637 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 137 of 637 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 67 of 637 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 79 of 637 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 99 of 637 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 637 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 637 occurrencesOligocene — about 16 of 637 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 637 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 637 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 637 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 6 occurrences293–281 Mya — about 18 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 23 occurrences268–256 Mya — about 27 occurrences256–244 Mya — about 37 occurrences244–232 Mya — about 3 occurrences232–220 Mya — about 3 occurrences220–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–195 Mya — about 21 occurrences195–183 Mya — about 24 occurrences183–171 Mya — about 46 occurrences171–159 Mya — about 118 occurrences159–146 Mya — about 46 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 21 occurrences134–122 Mya — about 16 occurrences122–110 Mya — about 27 occurrences110–98 Mya — about 38 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 23 occurrences85–73 Mya — about 41 occurrences73–61 Mya — about 25 occurrences61–49 Mya — about 8 occurrences49–37 Mya — about 11 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 17 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 14 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences306 Mya11.7 ka366 Mya0 Mya

637 occurrences of Taxaceae on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

637 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

208 formations

Saltwick — 54.50°N, 0.75°WSaltwick — 54.40°N, 1.00°WSaltwick — 54.30°N, 0.40°WSaltwick — 54.37°N, 1.25°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.43°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 45.65°N, 103.62°WHell Creek — 46.13°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.85°WCretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WEagle — 44.99°N, 108.87°WEagle — 44.98°N, 109.27°WArqov — 31.67°N, 34.83°EArqov — 31.60°N, 34.70°EArqov — 31.67°N, 34.58°EBlack Creek — 35.38°N, 77.99°WBlack Creek — 35.35°N, 78.02°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 34.23°N, 79.72°WPautut — 70.25°N, 54.50°WCommotion — 54.42°N, 120.37°WCorwin — 68.85°N, 163.20°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.72°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.76°WMilk River — 49.17°N, 111.87°WMilk River — 49.07°N, 111.59°WMilk River — 49.08°N, 111.41°WMilk River — 49.08°N, 113.52°WKoshelevskaya Suite — 56.40°N, 57.50°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 56.70°N, 57.30°EKoshelevskaya Suite — 57.40°N, 57.70°EDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.08°N, 120.17°WDunvegan — 55.70°N, 121.63°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WCloughton — 54.30°N, 0.40°WCloughton — 54.17°N, 0.25°WScalby — 54.30°N, 0.40°WScalby — 54.25°N, 0.33°WFlowerpot — 36.30°N, 98.53°WSteierdorf — 45.08°N, 21.85°EShoptykol' Suite — 51.10°N, 75.60°EOr' Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.50°N, 67.90°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.60°N, 67.40°EUpper Tashkutan Suite — 38.70°N, 69.30°EUpper Gurud Suite — 38.60°N, 67.40°EBuckly — 84.00°S, 162.00°ERaritan — 40.00°N, 74.00°W

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The named rock units Taxaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 184 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 201 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taxaceae and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Taxaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,006 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 470 sites for Taxaceae, and this reads 240 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

197 references

Each of the 637 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. 185 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 Taxaceae

Credit
Muffet
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Taxaceae 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. Gray 1822