Proteaceae

The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentrations of diversity. Together with the Platanaceae, Nelumbonaceae and in the recent APG IV system the Sabiaceae, they make up the order Proteales. Well-known Proteaceae genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea, Hakea, and Macadamia. Species such as the New South Wales waratah, king protea, and various species of Banksia, Grevillea, and Leucadendron are popular cut flowers. The nuts of Macadamia integrifolia are widely grown commercially and consumed, as are those of Gevuina avellana on a smaller scale.

Proteaceae

Stan Shebs · 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
ProtealesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 227 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 1818 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 1818 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1818 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 1818 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1818 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 1818 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 336 of 1818 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 399 of 1818 occurrencesEocene — about 598 of 1818 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 100 of 1818 occurrencesMiocene — about 123 of 1818 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 1818 occurrencesPleistocene — about 240 of 1818 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence230–222 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 9 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 22 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 60 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 46 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 220 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 330 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 297 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 190 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 173 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 77 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 71 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 57 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 257 occurrences227.3 Mya11.7 ka246 Mya0 Mya

1,818 occurrences of Proteaceae 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

1,818 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

147 formations

Fort Union — 46.92°N, 103.52°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 105.93°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 45.86°N, 106.80°WFort Union — 47.22°N, 104.67°WFort Union — 48.18°N, 110.12°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.83°N, 106.09°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 106.06°WFort Union — 46.60°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.59°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 45.55°N, 105.72°WFort Union — 45.53°N, 105.64°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WHidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WMorwell — 38.22°S, 146.61°ELa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.50°S, 66.50°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WBara — 25.73°N, 68.07°EBara — 25.75°N, 68.25°EBara — 24.80°N, 67.97°EBara — 25.89°N, 67.92°EMirador — 11.00°N, 72.38°WMirador — 10.88°N, 72.38°WSohnari — 25.73°N, 68.07°ESohnari — 25.75°N, 68.25°ESohnari — 25.12°N, 68.12°ESohnari — 25.25°N, 68.33°ESohnari — 25.17°N, 68.50°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°ELakhra — 25.73°N, 68.07°ELakhra — 25.75°N, 68.25°ELakhra — 24.80°N, 67.97°EWasatch — 42.33°N, 108.22°WWasatch — 44.63°N, 106.17°WWasatch — 44.71°N, 106.17°WPeedee — 32.89°N, 80.36°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.26°S, 56.71°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.28°S, 56.77°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.32°S, 56.87°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WMacquarie Harbor — 42.17°S, 145.36°EPidinga — 31.24°S, 121.63°EPidinga — 32.19°S, 121.77°EAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WSan Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WHuitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WHuitrera — 40.67°S, 71.08°WHuitrera — 41.04°S, 71.20°WEyre — 29.32°S, 137.30°EEyre — 29.51°S, 137.53°EEyre — 28.10°S, 140.20°EAllen — 37.92°S, 68.48°WAllen — 38.78°S, 67.93°WAllen — 38.77°S, 68.01°WGuasare — 11.00°N, 72.38°WTaratu — 45.37°S, 170.45°ETaratu — 43.18°S, 171.78°E

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The named rock units Proteaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 123 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 840 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proteaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Proteaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,001 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 788 sites for Proteaceae, 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

183 references

Each of the 1,818 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. 171 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 Proteaceae

Credit
Stan Shebs
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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