Taxodiaceae

Taxodiaceae is a formerly recognized conifer family. It is today recognised as a paraphyletic grade of basal lineages within the Cupressaceae, with the exception of Sciadopitys verticillata, which has been reclassified into its own family, the Sciadopityaceae.

Taxodiaceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 203 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 134 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 134 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 134 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 21 of 134 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 19 of 134 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 32 of 134 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 134 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 134 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 134 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 134 occurrencesPliocene — about 11 of 134 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 134 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–178 Mya — about 1 occurrence178–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 6 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 11 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 5 occurrences139–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 6 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 5 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 10 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 11 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 14 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences205.7 Mya1.8 Mya232 Mya0 Mya

134 occurrences of Taxodiaceae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

134 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

52 formations

Taratu — 43.18°S, 171.78°EPautut — 70.25°N, 54.50°WTurtel Mountain — 49.06°N, 100.56°WEagle — 44.99°N, 108.87°WChengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°EHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°EGreen River — 41.10°N, 109.30°WMulin — 45.90°N, 133.00°EShahuozi — 44.20°N, 126.00°EMuoshishan — 28.20°N, 115.90°EMuoshishan — 28.60°N, 119.30°ERamså — 69.18°N, 16.08°ERock Springs — 41.47°N, 109.24°WCretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WAluginskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°ELizigou — 41.84°N, 123.90°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°EFort Union — 46.91°N, 101.44°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WGaillard — 32.63°N, 83.99°WChangan — 43.50°N, 125.50°EGuangde — 30.90°N, 119.40°EChangchai — 43.20°N, 129.80°EDubovka Suite — 49.80°N, 73.10°E

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The named rock units Taxodiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taxodiaceae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Taxodiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,445 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Taxodiaceae, 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

66 references

Each of the 134 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. 54 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 Taxodiaceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Taxodiaceae was found in Sketchfab.

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

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. Saporta 1865