Ulmaceae

The Ulmaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes the elms, and the zelkovas. Members of the family are widely distributed throughout the north temperate zone, and have a scattered distribution elsewhere except for Australasia.

Ulmaceae

Bruce Marlin · CC BY 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
elmPBDB
Sits inside
RosalesPBDB
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 715 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 715 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 715 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 89 of 715 occurrencesEocene — about 169 of 715 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 60 of 715 occurrencesMiocene — about 219 of 715 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 37 of 715 occurrencesPleistocene — about 96 of 715 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 15 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 29 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 40 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 45 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 31 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 41 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 40 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 37 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 35 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 22 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 31 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 57 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 89 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 52 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 148 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

715 occurrences of Ulmaceae 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

715 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

127 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 42.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 41.54°N, 109.26°WFort Union — 41.59°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 43.90°N, 105.20°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 105.30°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 106.00°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.00°WFort Union — 43.40°N, 105.10°WFort Union — 43.30°N, 105.00°WFort Union — 43.60°N, 105.10°WFort Union — 43.50°N, 104.90°WFort Union — 46.96°N, 104.90°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 46.92°N, 103.52°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 110.40°WFort Union — 44.77°N, 107.13°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 106.93°WFort Union — 43.47°N, 108.68°WFort Union — 46.28°N, 108.22°WFort Union — 48.08°N, 105.63°WFort Union — 46.43°N, 107.82°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 106.82°WFort Union — 45.88°N, 106.62°WFort Union — 47.72°N, 104.15°WFort Union — 47.22°N, 104.67°WFort Union — 46.17°N, 110.15°WFort Union — 45.91°N, 106.22°WFort Union — 46.26°N, 110.10°WFort Union — 48.18°N, 110.12°WFort Union — 45.15°N, 105.68°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 108.08°WFort Union — 46.79°N, 105.14°WFort Union — 46.62°N, 104.39°WFort Union — 42.23°N, 106.40°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 104.70°WFort Union — 41.37°N, 109.21°WFort Union — 41.34°N, 109.21°WFort Union — 45.47°N, 103.21°WFort Union — 46.44°N, 103.54°WFort Union — 46.36°N, 101.79°WFort Union — 47.90°N, 102.82°WFort Union — 46.58°N, 112.51°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 41.71°N, 108.62°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.98°WHell Creek — 46.13°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.86°WItahana — 36.25°N, 138.50°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.32°N, 138.85°EJohn 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 — 44.57°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°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 — 39.88°N, 109.15°WGreen River — 38.95°N, 105.30°WLisbon — 31.56°N, 87.90°WLisbon — 31.52°N, 84.11°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.18°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EOgawa — 36.50°N, 138.00°EYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WAldrich Station — 38.49°N, 118.90°WSalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WZhangcu — 37.08°N, 113.00°EAllenby — 49.47°N, 120.48°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°WKettle River — 49.05°N, 118.91°WTallahatta — 31.56°N, 87.91°WTallahatta — 31.52°N, 84.11°WTallahatta — 32.33°N, 88.78°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EPaskapoo — 54.33°N, 118.75°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°E

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The named rock units Ulmaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 103 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 321 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ulmaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ulmaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,850 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 492 sites for Ulmaceae, 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

139 references

Each of the 715 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. 127 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 Ulmaceae

Credit
Bruce Marlin
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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What may have been alongside itRosales through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brisseau-Mirbel 1815