Chenopodiaceae

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.

Chenopodiaceae

Lynk media · 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
CaryophyllalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 231 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 231 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 231 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 231 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 231 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 40 of 231 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 231 occurrencesPleistocene — about 124 of 231 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 11 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 12 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 14 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 134 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

231 occurrences of Chenopodiaceae 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

231 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

27 formations

Monte León — 47.08°S, 66.39°WMonte León — 47.09°S, 66.01°WMonte León — 50.27°S, 68.86°WMonte León — 50.23°S, 68.63°WMonte León — 50.13°S, 68.40°WMonte León — 50.17°S, 68.43°WMonte León — 47.03°S, 66.80°WPedro Luro — 38.89°S, 62.10°WPedro Luro — 38.81°S, 62.19°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WPedro Luro — 38.90°S, 62.53°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WChenque — 45.86°S, 67.57°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.35°EFort Union — 46.32°N, 103.85°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WLisbon — 31.56°N, 87.90°WChiquimil — 26.83°S, 66.00°WMonte Leon — 47.08°S, 66.39°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ELas Tetas de Cabra — 28.68°N, 114.08°WDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ECutzamala — 19.05°N, 100.70°WKukebai — 40.00°N, 100.00°ELa Ollita — 29.54°S, 69.53°WPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.27°WDel Buey — 28.92°S, 67.52°WBlue Clay — 40.47°N, 17.30°EYalakdere — 40.61°N, 29.25°ESanta Cruz — 50.63°S, 72.47°WYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Chenopodiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 158 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chenopodiaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Chenopodiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,390 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 199 sites for Chenopodiaceae, 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

57 references

Each of the 231 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. 45 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 Chenopodiaceae

Credit
Lynk media
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chenopodiaceae 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.

Keep going

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. Ventenant 1799