Cistaceae

The Cistaceae are a small family of plants, mostly shrubs, which are profusely covered by flowers in the spring and summer. This family consists of about 170–200 species in eight genera that are not very distinct, distributed primarily in the temperate areas of Europe and the Mediterranean basin, but also found in North America; a limited number of species are found in South America. Most Cistaceae are subshrubs and low shrubs, and some are herbaceous. They prefer dry and sunny habitats. Cistaceae grow well on poor soils, and many of them are cultivated in gardens.

Cistaceae

Iorsh at en.wikipedia · Public Domain · 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
MalvalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPliocene — about 16 of 26 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 26 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–4.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.3–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.7–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Cistaceae on record. 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

26 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 the same rock

437 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Cistaceae, 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

9 references

Each of the 26 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. 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 Cistaceae

Credit
Iorsh at en.wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cistaceae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itMalvales through timeThe world it lived on

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