Sterculiaceae

Sterculiaceae was a family of flowering plant based on the genus Sterculia. Genera formerly included in Sterculiaceae are now placed in the family Malvaceae, in the subfamilies: Byttnerioideae, Dombeyoideae, Helicteroideae and Sterculioideae.

Sterculiaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 154 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 154 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 25 of 154 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 74 of 154 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 154 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 154 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 154 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 154 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 10 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 21 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 40 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 8 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

154 occurrences of Sterculiaceae 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

154 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

35 formations

Willwood — 44.17°N, 108.48°WWillwood — 44.17°N, 108.56°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 110.00°WWasatch — 41.91°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.69°N, 107.88°WWasatch — 41.69°N, 108.20°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 108.38°WWasatch — 41.93°N, 107.99°WWasatch — 42.33°N, 108.22°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.39°N, 104.00°WFort Union — 46.46°N, 104.00°WFort Union — 46.34°N, 103.99°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 41.55°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 104.70°WFort Union — 41.37°N, 109.21°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 120.28°WJohn Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WGolden Valley — 46.98°N, 102.00°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WGolden Valley — 47.17°N, 102.83°WGolden Valley — 47.08°N, 102.83°WWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.47°N, 80.22°EDeccan Intertrappean — 23.11°N, 80.61°EDeccan Intertrappean — 21.23°N, 79.01°ETatman — 44.19°N, 108.58°WTatman — 44.15°N, 108.55°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WNgorora — 0.88°N, 35.80°EHell Creek — 46.32°N, 103.86°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WClarno — 44.92°N, 120.47°WClarno — 44.58°N, 120.25°WDenver — 39.43°N, 102.97°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WFort Union? — 47.30°N, 104.52°WFort Union? — 46.86°N, 101.24°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°ETipam — 24.68°N, 92.56°ETipam — 27.19°N, 95.47°EFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°ELondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ETranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WRaton — 36.95°N, 104.33°WD1 — 39.38°N, 104.86°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°W

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The named rock units Sterculiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sterculiaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sterculiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,839 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 139 sites for Sterculiaceae, 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

36 references

Each of the 154 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. 24 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 Sterculiaceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.1 es
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sterculiaceae 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
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Ventenat 1807