Amaranthaceae

Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus Amaranthus. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making it the most species-rich lineage within its parent order, Caryophyllales.

Amaranthaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 43 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 25 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Amaranthaceae 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

43 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

10 formations

Olduvai — 2.99°S, 35.35°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ECulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WNorwich Crag — 52.31°N, 1.40°EChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSt. Marys — 38.16°N, 76.83°WEastover — 38.16°N, 76.83°WBacons Castle — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSanying — 26.51°N, 100.16°E

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The named rock units Amaranthaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amaranthaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Amaranthaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

659 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Amaranthaceae, 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

15 references

Each of the 43 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. 3 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

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Picture of Amaranthaceae

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No 3D scan of Amaranthaceae 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCaryophyllales through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Jussieu 1789