Urticaceae

The Urticaceae are a family, the nettle family, of flowering plants. The family name comes from the genus Urtica. The Urticaceae family includes a number of well-known and useful plants, including nettles in the genus Urtica, Ramie, māmaki, and ajlai.

Urticaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
nettlePBDB
Sits inside
RosalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

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.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 113 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 113 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 113 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 113 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 113 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 113 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 113 occurrencesPleistocene — about 41 of 113 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 10 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 10 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 59 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

113 occurrences of Urticaceae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

113 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

11 formations

Iguincha — 3.40°S, 79.10°WIguincha — 3.33°S, 79.06°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EOlduvai — 2.96°S, 35.31°ESalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ED1 — 39.38°N, 104.86°WYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°EWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°E

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The named rock units Urticaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 84 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Urticaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Urticaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

820 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Urticaceae, 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

32 references

Each of the 113 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. 20 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 Urticaceae

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Migas assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Urticaceae 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. de Jussieu 1789