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Monocotyledoneae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	55869	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=55869

Rank

subclass (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Plantae : Angiospermae : Monocotyledoneae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
kingdom	Plantae	Haeckel 1866
subkingdom	Embryophyta	Crane et al. 2004
phylum	Angiospermae	Mabberley 2000
subclass	Monocotyledoneae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Monocotyledoneae	subclass	belongs to Angiospermae	stated with evidence	Stockmans, 1936
Monocotyledoneae	unranked clade	belongs to Angiospermae	stated without evidence	MacGinitie, 1941
Monocotyledoneae	class	belongs to Anthophyta	stated without evidence	Shoshani et al., 1989
Monocotyledoneae	subclass	belongs to Angiospermae	stated without evidence	Mabberley, 2000
Monocotyledoneae	subclass	belongs to Magnoliopsida	stated without evidence	Jud, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

326

Extant Size (PBDB)

78 (24%)

First Recorded Appearance

260 - 254 Ma
Permian

Diet

photoautotroph (based on Angiospermae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. E. McIver and J. F. Basinger. 1993. Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 10:1-85

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Arecidae subclass	listed (PBDB)	75	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Commelinidae subclass	listed (PBDB)	746	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Liliidae subclass	listed (PBDB)	312	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Zingiberidae subclass	listed (PBDB)	74	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Alismales order	listed (PBDB)	34	47.8 Ma Eocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Arecales order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	689	145 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Glumiflorae order	listed (PBDB)
Najadales order	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Palmales order	listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Principes order	listed (PBDB)
Scitamineae order	listed (PBDB)
Spathiflorae order	listed (PBDB)
Commelinacea family	listed (PBDB)	4	13.8 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Potamogetonaceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Arundo genus	listed (PBDB)	5	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Monoporites ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	48.6 Ma Eocene
Monosulcites ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	124	260 Ma Permian	16.0 Ma Miocene
Restioniidites ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	6	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Sabalpollenites ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sparganiaceaepollenites ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	43	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	11.6 Ma Miocene
Stellatopollis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	70	145 Ma Late Jurassic	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1936	Monocotyledoneae Stockmans p. 26
1941	Monocotyledones MacGinitie
1977	Monocotyledoneae Hickey
1989	Monocotyledonae Shoshani et al. p. 434
2000	Monocotyledoneae Mabberley
2003	Monocotyledonae Sims
2011	Monocotyledoneae Jud

References

McIver E. E., Basinger J. F. (1993) Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, Palaeontographica Canadiana 10, 1-85

Stockmans F. (1936) Vegetaux Eocenes des environs de Bruxelles, Memoires du Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 76, 1-56

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

Hickey L. J. (1977) Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of western North Dakota, The Geological Society of America Memoir 150, 1-183

Shoshani J., Fisher D. C., et al (1989) The Shelton Mastodon Site: Multidisciplinary study of a late Pleistocene (Twocreekan) locality in Southeastern Michigan, Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27 14, 393-436

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

Jud N. A. (2011) Unpublished taxonomic opinions

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!

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