Salicaceae

The Salicaceae are the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family includes the willows and poplars. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 56 genera and about 1220 species, including the tropical Scyphostegiaceae and many of the former Flacourtiaceae.

Salicaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 742 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 742 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 56 of 742 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 45 of 742 occurrencesEocene — about 93 of 742 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 65 of 742 occurrencesMiocene — about 337 of 742 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 58 of 742 occurrencesPleistocene — about 69 of 742 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 9 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 9 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 17 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 38 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 8 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 25 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 26 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 14 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 11 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 24 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 31 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 28 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 33 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 80 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 169 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 71 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 127 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

742 occurrences of Salicaceae 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

742 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

98 formations

Chloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WChloropagus — 39.79°N, 118.94°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 44.20°N, 107.88°WFort Union — 46.47°N, 104.01°WFort Union — 46.51°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 103.81°WFort Union — 46.32°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 46.39°N, 104.00°WFort Union — 41.59°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.99°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 45.18°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 104.70°WFort Union — 46.43°N, 105.24°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 110.00°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 109.35°WGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WGreen River — 40.02°N, 109.18°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 110.70°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.09°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 110.00°WYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WBlack Creek — 34.55°N, 80.13°WBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 33.88°N, 81.02°WBlack Creek — 33.53°N, 81.83°WBlack Creek — 33.71°N, 81.78°WBlack Creek — 34.31°N, 79.84°WSepulcher — 40.00°N, 110.00°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WCoal Valley — 39.52°N, 119.99°WCoal Valley — 39.31°N, 119.65°WBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WAldrich Station — 38.49°N, 118.90°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.36°WLatah — 47.70°N, 116.75°WLatah — 47.65°N, 117.39°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.12°N, 87.67°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WWasatch — 41.91°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 108.38°WWasatch — 41.82°N, 108.03°WWasatch — 41.91°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 42.33°N, 108.22°WSan Joaquin — 36.00°N, 120.06°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOgawa — 36.50°N, 138.00°ECerrejón — 11.13°N, 72.57°WLance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.61°WPyramid — 39.90°N, 119.55°W

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The named rock units Salicaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 236 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Salicaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Salicaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,394 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 314 sites for Salicaceae, 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

115 references

Each of the 742 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. 103 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 content2

Picture of Salicaceae

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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC0 Public Domain
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the licence allows it

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

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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. Brisseau-Mirbel 1815