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Compositae

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	54741	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=54741

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Compositae	family	belongs to Campanulatae	stated without evidence	MacGinitie, 1941
Compositae	family	belongs to Asterales	stated without evidence	Mabberley, 2000

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

86.3 - 83.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. D. MacGinitie. 1941. A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 534:1-178

Fossil Distribution

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Calycites genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	48.6 Ma Eocene

Year	Name and Author
1941	Compositae MacGinitie
2000	Compositae Mabberley

MacGinitie H. D. (1941) A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 534, 1-178

Mabberley D.J. (2000) The Plant-Book, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!