Rutaceae

The Rutaceae is a family, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.

Rutaceae

Kurt Stüber [1] · 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
Also called
citrusPBDB
Sits inside
SapindalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 263 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 263 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 263 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 49 of 263 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 263 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 91 of 263 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 263 occurrencesPleistocene — about 71 of 263 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 8 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 7 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 25 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 18 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 16 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 17 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 89 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

263 occurrences of Rutaceae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

263 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

41 formations

London Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°EMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.14°N, 78.97°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.47°N, 80.22°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.01°N, 78.60°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.23°N, 79.01°EBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WNgorora — 0.88°N, 35.80°EYallourn — 38.22°S, 146.56°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ELower Churia — 27.71°N, 82.53°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ELower — 29.14°N, 80.19°EItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°ESan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.71°N, 81.78°WSanying — 26.51°N, 100.16°ESanying — 26.46°N, 99.43°ETuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOhoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WMpesida — 0.83°N, 35.83°EEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°EGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°W

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The named rock units Rutaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 181 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rutaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rutaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,042 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 121 sites for Rutaceae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

64 references

Each of the 263 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. 52 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 Rutaceae

Credit
Kurt Stüber [1]
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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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