Ajuga reptans

Ajuga reptans is commonly known as bugle, blue bugle, bugleherb, bugleweed, carpetweed, carpet bugleweed, and common bugle, and traditionally as St. Lawrence plant. It is an herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to Europe. It is also a component of purple moor grass and rush pastures, a Biodiversity Action Plan habitat in the United Kingdom.

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G. Edward Johnson · CC BY-SA 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
Sits inside
AjugaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11.63 Mya3.6 Mya14.3 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Ajuga reptans on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

4 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

1 formation

Santa Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°E

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The named rock units Ajuga reptans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ajuga reptans and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Ajuga reptans and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ajuga reptans, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 4 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. 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 Ajuga reptans

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G. Edward Johnson
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No 3D scan of Ajuga reptans 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 itAjuga through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753