Oleaceae

Oleaceae, also known as the olive family or sometimes the lilac family, is a taxonomic family of flowering shrubs, trees, and a few lianas in the order Lamiales. It presently comprises 28 genera, one of which is recently extinct. The extant genera include Cartrema, which was resurrected in 2012. The number of species in the Oleaceae is variously estimated in a wide range around 700. The flowers are often numerous and highly odoriferous. The family has a subcosmopolitan distribution, ranging from the subarctic to the southernmost parts of Africa, Australia, and South America. Notable members include olive, ash, jasmine, and several popular ornamental plants including privet, forsythia, fringetrees, and lilac.

Oleaceae

Rodrigo Nuno Bragança da Cunha · 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
LamialesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 268 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 268 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 268 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 25 of 268 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 268 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 60 of 268 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 268 occurrencesPleistocene — about 111 of 268 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 11 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 16 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 18 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 136 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

268 occurrences of Oleaceae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

268 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

53 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.82°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 42.75°N, 109.72°WFort Union — 45.93°N, 105.87°WFort Union — 47.40°N, 103.25°WItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EOlduvai — 2.96°S, 35.31°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.15°N, 79.04°ELance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.61°WOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WOhoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EElandsfontyn — 33.97°S, 18.12°EBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WAldrich Station — 38.49°N, 118.90°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ETura — 25.49°N, 90.77°EWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°E

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The named rock units Oleaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 169 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oleaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Oleaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,015 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 202 sites for Oleaceae, and this reads all 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

67 references

Each of the 268 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. 55 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 Oleaceae

Credit
Rodrigo Nuno Bragança da Cunha
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oleaceae 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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