Piperaceae

The Piperaceae, also known as the pepper family, are a large family of flowering plants. The group contains roughly 3,600 currently accepted species in five genera, the vast majority within Piper and Peperomia. The bell and chili pepper, meanwhile, belong to a different family.

Piperaceae

Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · 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
pepperPBDB
Sits inside
PiperalesPBDB
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 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 23 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 0.2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Piperaceae 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

23 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

3 formations

Bangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EGuaduas — 5.24°N, 73.80°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°W

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The named rock units Piperaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Piperaceae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Piperaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

489 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Piperaceae, 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 23 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 content1

Picture of Piperaceae

Credit
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Piperaceae 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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What may have been alongside itPiperales through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Giseke 1792