Caryophyllaceae

Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the eudicot order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae, and Polygonaceae. It is a large family, with 105 genera and about 2,625 known species.

Caryophyllaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 95 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 95 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 95 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 95 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 95 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 95 occurrencesPleistocene — about 63 of 95 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 18 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 67 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

95 occurrences of Caryophyllaceae 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

95 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

5 formations

Sanying — 26.51°N, 100.16°ESanying — 26.46°N, 99.43°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°ETura — 25.38°N, 90.22°EGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°W

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The named rock units Caryophyllaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caryophyllaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Caryophyllaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,341 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Caryophyllaceae, 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

28 references

Each of the 95 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. 16 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 Caryophyllaceae

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Jussieu 1789