Fabaceae

Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and agriculturally important family of flowering plants. It includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit (legume) and their compound, stipulate leaves. The family is widely distributed, and is the third-largest land plant family in number of species, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with about 765 genera and nearly 20,000 known species.

Fabaceae

Photo by Peggy Greb. · 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
Also called
legumePBDB
Sits inside
FabalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1254 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 1254 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 39 of 1254 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 68 of 1254 occurrencesEocene — about 363 of 1254 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 60 of 1254 occurrencesMiocene — about 428 of 1254 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 98 of 1254 occurrencesPleistocene — about 174 of 1254 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 5 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 7 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 12 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 35 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 77 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 105 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 56 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 44 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 101 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 34 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 25 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 61 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 105 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 146 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 137 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 276 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

1,254 occurrences of Fabaceae 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

1,254 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

144 formations

London Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EYaw — 23.25°N, 94.25°EYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°ECerrejón — 11.13°N, 72.57°WCerrejón — 11.09°N, 72.69°WNkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°ELower — 31.95°N, 76.27°ELower — 29.14°N, 80.19°ELower — 29.15°N, 80.19°ELower — 29.16°N, 80.09°ELower — 30.18°N, 77.90°ELower — 31.01°N, 76.73°ELower — 29.49°N, 78.76°EItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.32°N, 138.85°EGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 109.35°WGreen River — 41.53°N, 109.47°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.19°N, 108.60°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 110.00°WLower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°EXiaolongtan — 25.42°N, 102.85°EXiaolongtan — 23.33°N, 104.28°ETipam — 24.68°N, 92.56°ETipam — 25.77°N, 93.39°ETipam — 27.19°N, 95.47°ETipam — 27.26°N, 95.40°ETipam — 24.36°N, 92.52°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EJohn Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EFort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 43.87°N, 108.17°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 107.17°WFort Union — 43.03°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 43.62°N, 106.27°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.95°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WIguincha — 3.40°S, 79.10°WIguincha — 3.33°S, 79.06°WKoobi Fora — 3.85°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EChenque — 45.86°S, 67.60°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WNeyveli — 11.54°N, 79.48°ELusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°ELa Paz — 7.33°N, 73.33°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°W

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The named rock units Fabaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 120 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 512 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fabaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Fabaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,798 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 566 sites for Fabaceae, and this reads 240 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

181 references

Each of the 1,254 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. 169 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 Fabaceae

Credit
Photo by Peggy Greb.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fabaceae 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