Myricaceae

Myricaceae is a small family of dicotyledonous shrubs and small trees in the order Fagales. Its type genus is Myrica, the sweet gales. There are three genera in the family, although some botanists separate many species from Myrica into a fourth genus Morella. About 55 species are usually accepted in Myrica, one in Canacomyrica, and one in Comptonia.

Myricaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FagalesPBDB
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 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 326 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 326 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 326 occurrencesEocene — about 55 of 326 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 39 of 326 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 175 of 326 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 25 of 326 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 326 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 15 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 13 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 9 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 11 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 15 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 18 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 16 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 66 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 60 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 37 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

326 occurrences of Myricaceae 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

326 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

50 formations

Odderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EOkhonchevayamskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°ETuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°WFrontier — 41.60°N, 110.55°WFrontier — 41.79°N, 110.54°WLaramie — 39.49°N, 103.88°WLaramie — 44.97°N, 110.67°WChallis Volcanics — 44.37°N, 114.22°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WBlack Creek — 34.31°N, 79.84°WXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EHannuoba — 42.13°N, 117.84°EChu Chua — 51.37°N, 120.15°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.70°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°ETokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°E

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The named rock units Myricaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 230 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myricaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Myricaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,487 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 142 sites for Myricaceae, 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

77 references

Each of the 326 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. 65 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 Myricaceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Myricaceae 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. Martinov 1817