Liliopsida

Liliopsida Batsch is a botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae. It is considered synonymous with the name monocotyledon. Publication of the name is credited to Scopoli : see author citation (botany). This name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Liliaceae by the termination -opsida.

Liliopsida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnthophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 20 of 33 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 33 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences48.07 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya11 Mya

33 occurrences of Liliopsida on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

33 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

8 formations

Iguincha — 3.40°S, 79.10°WIguincha — 3.33°S, 79.06°WIguincha — 3.00°S, 79.00°WHuitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WOldhaven — 50.78°N, 0.08°EHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WLower Headon — 50.67°N, 1.53°WLatrero — 3.36°S, 79.08°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°E

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The named rock units Liliopsida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liliopsida and its relatives

Eocene

Where Liliopsida and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

459 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Liliopsida, 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

9 references

Each of the 33 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 content2

Picture of Liliopsida

Credit
Neva Micheva
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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What may have been alongside itAnthophyta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kenrick and Crane 1997)