Liliaceae

The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous geophytes, often growing from bulbs although some have rhizomes. The leaves are linear in shape, with their veins usually arranged parallel to the edges, single and arranged alternating on the stem, or in a rosette at the base. The flowers are large with six colored or patterned petaloid tepals arranged in two whorls of three, six stamens and a superior ovary. The fruit can be a berry or capsule, with seeds dispersed by animals or wind, respectively.

Liliaceae

Zachi Evenor · CC BY 2.0 · 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
MonocotsPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 23 of 551 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 228 of 551 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 141 of 551 occurrencesEocene — about 88 of 551 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 551 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 551 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 551 occurrencesPleistocene — about 45 of 551 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 13 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 23 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 8 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 9 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 9 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 97 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 109 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 72 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 22 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 14 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 14 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 12 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 12 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 32 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 55 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

551 occurrences of Liliaceae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

551 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

72 formations

Monte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.83°N, 106.09°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 106.06°WFort Union — 46.60°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.59°N, 105.68°WBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WCerro Cazador — 51.59°S, 72.41°WCerro Cazador — 51.18°S, 72.22°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°ELa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.50°S, 66.50°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WSalamanca — 45.29°S, 67.04°WSalamanca — 45.40°S, 67.12°WSalamanca — 45.82°S, 69.03°WSalamanca — 45.81°S, 69.06°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WSalamanca — 47.53°S, 68.17°WChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WAllen — 37.92°S, 68.48°WAllen — 38.78°S, 67.93°WAllen — 38.77°S, 68.01°WJagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.32°S, 56.87°WWasatch — 44.63°N, 106.17°WWasatch — 44.71°N, 106.17°WCerro Dorotea — 51.59°S, 72.41°WCerro Dorotea — 51.58°S, 72.34°WPaso del Sapo — 42.67°S, 70.01°WCerro Bororó — 43.67°S, 67.75°WCerro Bororó — 43.74°S, 67.25°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.62°S, 68.43°WScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WUnknown — 11.63°S, 130.31°EUnknown — 16.59°S, 139.38°EMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°EPedro Luro — 38.89°S, 62.10°WPedro Luro — 38.81°S, 62.19°WTurtel Mountain — 49.06°N, 100.56°W

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The named rock units Liliaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 129 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liliaceae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Liliaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,084 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 348 sites for Liliaceae, and this reads 240 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

91 references

Each of the 551 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. 79 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 Liliaceae

Credit
Zachi Evenor
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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. Jussieu 1789