Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae were long recognised as a family of flowering plants or Angiospermae. The family name was based on the type genus Bombax. As is true for many botanical names, circumscription and status of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view, and currently the preference is to transfer most of the erstwhile family Bombacaceae to the subfamily Bombacoideae within the family Malvaceae in the order Malvales. The rest of the family were transferred to other taxa, notably the new family Durionaceae. Irrespective of current taxonomic status, many of the species originally included in the Bombacaceae are of considerable ecological, historical, horticultural, and economic importance, such as balsa, kapok, baobab and durian.

Bombacaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 209 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 209 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 55 of 209 occurrencesEocene — about 131 of 209 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 209 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 209 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 209 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 209 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 9 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 22 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 35 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 19 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 29 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 35 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 29 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 9 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

209 occurrences of Bombacaceae 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

209 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

34 formations

Arcillas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WMirador — 10.88°N, 72.38°WMirador — 11.00°N, 72.38°WSan Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WMisoa — 10.88°N, 72.38°WMisoa — 9.89°N, 71.32°WSagavanirktok — 69.79°N, 148.64°WLa Paz — 7.33°N, 73.33°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WTallahatta — 32.33°N, 88.78°WTallahatta — 31.52°N, 84.11°WMirador — 7.70°N, 72.62°WEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°ESaramaguacan — 21.00°N, 77.00°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.26°S, 56.71°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.32°S, 56.87°WBashi — 31.27°N, 86.13°WBashi — 31.52°N, 84.11°WLos Cuervos — 4.90°N, 73.02°WGuasare — 11.00°N, 72.38°WTura — 25.50°N, 90.14°ELa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WMalboro Clay — 38.17°N, 77.04°WLisbon — 31.52°N, 84.11°WSan Lorenzo — 37.18°N, 122.14°WNkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EChapelton — 18.00°N, 77.00°W

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The named rock units Bombacaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bombacaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bombacaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,390 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Bombacaceae, 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

35 references

Each of the 209 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. 23 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 Bombacaceae

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

No 3D scan of Bombacaceae 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. Kunth