Tiliaceae
Tiliaceae is a family of flowering plants. It is not a part of the APG, APG II and APG III classifications, being sunk in Malvaceae mostly as the subfamilies Tilioideae, Brownlowioideae and Grewioideae, but has an extensive historical record of use.

Toubib at Dutch Wikipedia · 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
- MalvalesPBDB
- Diet
- C3 autotrophPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 65 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.
313 occurrences of Tiliaceae 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
313 occurrences- Late Cretaceous13%
- Paleocene5%
- Eocene45%
- Oligocene10%
- Miocene16%
- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene7%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
60 formations
- Sagavanirktok Formation43
- Hell Creek Formation26
- Canning Formation12
- John Day Formation11
- Wasatch Formation11
- Deccan Intertrappean Formation8
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The named rock units Tiliaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 93 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tiliaceae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tiliaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,544 taxa- Intratriporopollenites101 sites
- Carya71 sites
- Triatriopollenites59 sites
- Alnus54 sites
- Pterocarya48 sites
- Tilia47 sites
- Triporopollenites40 sites
- Quercus36 sites
- Ulmipollenites undulosus35 sites
- Betula33 sites
- Laevigatosporites33 sites
- Acer32 sites
- Alnipollenites verus30 sites
- Liquidambar30 sites
- Dicotyledoneae29 sites
- Momipites29 sites
- Pinus29 sites
- Grewiopsis28 sites
- Salix28 sites
- Ulmus27 sites
- Tetracolporopollenites26 sites
- Triporopollenites mullensis26 sites
- Carpinus25 sites
- Juglans25 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 222 sites for Tiliaceae, 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
71 references- Megaflora of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in the western Dakotas: Vegetational response to climate change, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event, and rapid marine transgression26
- Palynomorph biostratigraphy of Eocene samples from the Sagavanirktok Formation at Franklin Bluffs, North Slope of Alaska23
- Palynological dating of Upper Cretaceous to middle Eocene strata in the Sagavanirktok and Canning formations, North Slope of Alaska20
- Palynomorph biostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous to Eocene samples from the Sagavanirktok Formation in its type region, North Slope of Alaska18
- Vegetation dynamics in a disturbed lacustrine record: The Eocene maar lake of Groß-Zimmern (Hesse, Germany)16
- The Oligocene Bridge Creek flora of the John Day Formation, Oregon15
- Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan14
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany13
- Paleogene Sporomorph Biostratigraphy, Northeastern Virginia13
- Palynological data from the Fort Union and Wasatch formations, Powder River basin, Wyoming and Montana11
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China9
- Stratigraphic, Paleoclimatic, and Paleobiogeographic Significance of Tertiary Sporomorphs from Massachusetts9
Each of the 313 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. 59 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 Tiliaceae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Toubib at Dutch Wikipedia
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tiliaceae 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Tiliaceae”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMalvales through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Jussieu