Theaceae

Theaceae, the tea family, is a family of flowering plants comprising shrubs and trees, including the economically important tea plant, and the ornamental camellias. It can be described as having from seven to 40 genera, depending on the source and the method of circumscription used. The family Ternstroemiaceae has been included within Theaceae; however, the APG III system of 2009 places it instead in Pentaphylacaceae. Most but not all species are native to China and East Asia.

Theaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 184 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 184 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 38 of 184 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 184 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 98 of 184 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 184 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 184 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 10 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 8 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 16 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 31 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 13 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

184 occurrences of Theaceae 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

184 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

14 formations

Headon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.59°N, 109.25°WBagshot — 50.72°N, 2.00°WClarno — 44.74°N, 120.47°WClarno — 44.74°N, 120.42°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EOdderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°EGolden Valley — 45.50°N, 103.25°WSeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EIone — 39.31°N, 120.96°WTienen — 50.78°N, 5.08°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ENanlin — 25.12°N, 98.83°ESanying — 26.51°N, 100.16°EPondaung — 21.75°N, 94.67°E

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The named rock units Theaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 158 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Theaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Theaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

771 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Theaceae, 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

33 references

Each of the 184 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. 21 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 Theaceae

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

No 3D scan of Theaceae 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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What may have been alongside itEricales through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ker-Gawler 1816