Cunoniaceae

Cunoniaceae is a family of 27 genera and about 335 species of woody plants in the order Oxalidales, mostly found in the tropical and wet temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere. The greatest diversity of genera are in Australia and Tasmania, New Guinea, and New Caledonia. The family is also present in Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Malesia, the islands of the South Pacific, Madagascar and surrounding islands. The family is absent from mainland Asia except from Peninsular Malaysia, and almost absent from mainland Africa apart from two species from Southern Africa. Several of the genera have remarkable disjunct ranges, found on more than one continent, e.g. Cunonia, Eucryphia Weinmannia.

Cunoniaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 135 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 135 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 135 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 20 of 135 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 135 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 135 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 135 occurrencesPleistocene — about 68 of 135 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 0.6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 71 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

135 occurrences of Cunoniaceae 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

135 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

22 formations

Morwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°ESanta Marta — 63.90°S, 57.91°WCardiel — 48.78°S, 71.18°WCardiel — 48.97°S, 71.40°WHuitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WDemons Bluff — 38.40°S, 144.14°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°ECerro Bororó — 43.63°S, 67.72°WLigorio Márquez — 46.84°S, 71.87°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.67°WSobral — 64.28°S, 56.72°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.26°S, 56.75°WFildes — 62.17°S, 59.07°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WRegency — 42.31°S, 145.66°EMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°EEyre — 29.50°S, 137.52°ETaratu — 45.37°S, 170.45°EPidinga — 31.24°S, 121.63°ESanta Cruz — 50.97°S, 69.17°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°E

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The named rock units Cunoniaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 101 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cunoniaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cunoniaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

971 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Cunoniaceae, 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

38 references

Each of the 135 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. 26 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 Cunoniaceae

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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cunoniaceae 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

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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. Brown 1814