Platanaceae

Platanaceae, the plane family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Proteales. The family consists of only a single extant genus Platanus, with twelve known species. The plants are tall trees, native to temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The hybrid London plane is widely planted in cities worldwide.

Platanaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtealesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 542 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 23 of 542 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 176 of 542 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 149 of 542 occurrencesEocene — about 127 of 542 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 542 occurrencesMiocene — about 36 of 542 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 542 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 542 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 8 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 9 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 15 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 13 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 13 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 13 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 78 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 101 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 50 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 60 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 31 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 30 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 31 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 12 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 14 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 11 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences110.1 Mya129 ka146 Mya0 Mya

542 occurrences of Platanaceae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

542 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

87 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 108.05°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.47°N, 103.84°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 103.81°WFort Union — 46.32°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 46.91°N, 101.44°WFort Union — 46.39°N, 103.96°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 103.97°WFort Union — 42.30°N, 108.10°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 41.59°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.15°N, 103.81°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.99°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.92°N, 103.52°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 41.63°N, 107.55°WFort Union — 42.80°N, 105.48°WFort Union — 43.88°N, 108.52°WFort Union — 44.93°N, 106.95°WFort Union — 45.02°N, 106.87°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 46.17°N, 108.43°WFort Union — 48.40°N, 109.27°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 108.08°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 40.52°N, 107.55°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 47.13°N, 107.52°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 41.28°N, 109.19°WFort Union — 47.97°N, 102.55°WFort Union — 46.43°N, 105.24°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.75°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 103.88°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.09°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 45.65°N, 103.62°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.98°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.85°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 104.96°WWillwood — 44.19°N, 108.60°WWillwood — 44.17°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.39°N, 108.10°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 110.00°WDunvegan — 54.92°N, 121.42°WDunvegan — 55.63°N, 121.83°WDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 56.02°N, 120.12°WDunvegan — 55.71°N, 121.21°WDunvegan — 56.08°N, 120.17°WDunvegan — 55.63°N, 121.72°WDunvegan — 55.73°N, 120.12°WEagle — 44.98°N, 108.87°WJohn Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WJohn Day — 44.57°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.46°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WJohn Day — 44.16°N, 120.41°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WSepulcher — 40.00°N, 110.00°WRaton — 36.95°N, 104.33°WRaton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WRaton — 37.15°N, 104.62°WRaton — 37.00°N, 104.48°WRaton — 37.15°N, 104.73°WRaton — 36.80°N, 104.57°WKrivorechenskaya — 64.48°N, 168.92°EGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WPatapsco — 39.51°N, 75.99°WPatapsco — 38.41°N, 77.36°WPatapsco — 38.92°N, 76.92°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WWasatch — 36.73°N, 108.22°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.72°WCorwin — 69.50°N, 162.77°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WLamar River — 44.00°N, 110.00°WCoalmont — 40.86°N, 106.34°WCoalmont — 40.91°N, 106.42°WCoalmont — 40.47°N, 106.30°WCoalmont — 40.62°N, 106.10°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WKlondike Mountain — 48.65°N, 118.73°WPaskapoo — 54.33°N, 118.75°WPaskapoo — 52.27°N, 113.80°WRavenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WCretaceous — 43.43°N, 103.47°WCretaceous — 43.09°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.09°N, 104.65°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.61°WGolden Valley — 46.97°N, 102.67°WGolden Valley — 46.88°N, 102.78°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°W

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The named rock units Platanaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 80 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platanaceae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Platanaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 349 sites for Platanaceae, and this reads 240 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

98 references

Each of the 542 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. 86 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 Platanaceae

Credit
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Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Platanaceae 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
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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. Lestiboudois 1826