Restionaceae

The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family of flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; they vary from a few centimeters to 3 meters in height. Following the APG IV (2016): the family now includes the former families Anarthriaceae, Centrolepidaceae and Lyginiaceae, and as such includes 51 genera with 572 known species. Based on evidence from fossil pollen, the Restionaceae likely originated more than 65 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period, when the southern continents were still part of Gondwana.

Restionaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 95 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 95 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 34 of 95 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 95 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 24 of 95 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 95 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 95 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 8 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.5–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences66 Mya2.58 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

95 occurrences of Restionaceae 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

95 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

17 formations

Chenque — 45.87°S, 67.58°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WMalboro Clay — 38.17°N, 77.04°WEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°EMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EPiney Point — 37.66°N, 77.17°WPiney Point — 37.67°N, 77.14°WHatchetigbee — 31.42°N, 85.03°WHatchetigbee — 31.94°N, 87.98°WMonte León — 50.27°S, 68.86°WMonte León — 50.17°S, 68.43°WElandsfontyn — 33.97°S, 18.12°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.27°WEyre — 29.50°S, 137.52°ELa Meseta — 64.27°S, 56.67°WYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°EZarga-Ghazal — 9.35°N, 29.13°EPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WTallahatta — 32.33°N, 88.78°WAquia — 38.17°N, 77.04°W

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The named rock units Restionaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Restionaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Restionaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

928 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Restionaceae, 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

27 references

Each of the 95 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. 15 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 Restionaceae

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Andy king50
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Restionaceae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1810