Thymelaeaceae

The Thymelaeaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants composed of 50 genera and 898 species. It was established in 1789 by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. The Thymelaeaceae are mostly trees and shrubs, with a few vines and herbaceous plants, the latter including some annual species.

Thymelaeaceae

Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
MalvalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 11 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 31 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Thymelaeaceae on record. 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

31 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

4 formations

Bagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WWarkalli — 8.74°N, 76.70°EWarkalli — 12.03°N, 75.24°EOhoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°EElandsfontyn — 33.97°S, 18.12°E

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The named rock units Thymelaeaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

662 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Thymelaeaceae, 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

17 references

Each of the 31 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. 5 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 Thymelaeaceae

Credit
Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thymelaeaceae 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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What may have been alongside itMalvales through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jussieu 1789