Epacridaceae

The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with about 4,250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it the 14th most speciose family of flowering plants. The many well known and economically important members of the Ericaceae include the cranberry, blueberry, huckleberry, rhododendron, and various common heaths and heathers.

Epacridaceae

JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · 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
EricalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 23 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Epacridaceae 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

23 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

2 formations

London Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.83°N, 1.25°ELondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°EOldhaven — 50.78°N, 0.08°E

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The named rock units Epacridaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

347 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Epacridaceae, 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

6 references

Each of the 23 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 Epacridaceae

Credit
JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Epacridaceae 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.

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What may have been alongside itEricales through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown