Onagraceae

The Onagraceae are a family of flowering plants known as the willowherb family or evening primrose family. They include about 650 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in 17 genera. The family is widespread, occurring on every continent from boreal to tropical regions.

Onagraceae

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database · 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
willowherbPBDB
Sits inside
MyrtalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 105 occurrencesPaleocene — about 14 of 105 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 35 of 105 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 105 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 34 of 105 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 105 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 105 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 17 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

105 occurrences of Onagraceae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

105 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

22 formations

Yaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EArcillas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WSan Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WMonte León — 47.09°S, 66.01°WMonte León — 50.27°S, 68.86°WMonte León — 50.17°S, 68.43°WMirador — 7.70°N, 72.62°WMirador — 8.98°N, 73.00°WChenque — 45.87°S, 67.58°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WMirador — 10.88°N, 72.38°WMisoa — 10.88°N, 72.38°WEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WChapelton — 18.00°N, 77.00°WLumbrera — 25.80°S, 65.23°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WSanta Cruz — 50.63°S, 72.47°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EMalboro Clay — 38.17°N, 77.04°WAquia — 38.17°N, 77.04°WSan Lorenzo — 37.18°N, 122.14°WSagavanirktok — 69.79°N, 148.64°W

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The named rock units Onagraceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Onagraceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Onagraceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Onagraceae, 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

32 references

Each of the 105 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. 20 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 Onagraceae

Credit
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Onagraceae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. de Jussieu 1789