Clusiaceae

The Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. (1789) are a family of plants including 18 genera and ca 750 species. Several former members of Clusiaceae are now placed in Calophyllaceae and Hypericaceae. They are mostly trees and shrubs, with milky sap and fruits or capsules for seeds. The family is primarily tropical. More so than many plant families, it shows large variation in plant morphology. According to the APG III, this family belongs to the order Malpighiales.

Clusiaceae

Catesby, M. · 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
MalpighialesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 56 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 56 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 56 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 56 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 56 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 56 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 56 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 9 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences56 Mya2.58 Mya103 Mya0 Mya

56 occurrences of Clusiaceae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

56 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

14 formations

Tikak Parbat — 27.25°N, 95.67°EBarmer — 25.88°N, 71.37°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.23°N, 79.01°EDeccan Intertrappean — 23.11°N, 80.61°EDeccan Intertrappean — 23.19°N, 80.70°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°ETipam — 27.19°N, 95.47°ETipam — 27.26°N, 95.40°ETipam — 24.36°N, 92.52°EKimin — 27.08°N, 93.65°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°EShungura — 5.04°N, 36.04°EIguincha — 3.40°S, 79.10°WOropouche — 10.00°N, 61.00°WMangbang — 24.69°N, 98.63°ESylhet — 25.31°N, 91.73°EWarkalli — 8.74°N, 76.70°ENeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°E

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The named rock units Clusiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clusiaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Clusiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

845 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Clusiaceae, 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

20 references

Each of the 56 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. 8 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 Clusiaceae

Credit
Catesby, M.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Clusiaceae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindley 1836