Alismataceae

The water-plantains (Alismataceae) are a family of flowering plants, comprising 20 genera and 119 species. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the greatest number of species in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most of the species are herbaceous aquatic plants growing in marshes and ponds.

Alismataceae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlismatalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 31 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 31 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–6.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.7–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya102 Mya3 Mya

31 occurrences of Alismataceae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

6 formations

Willwood — 44.16°N, 108.55°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 108.05°WTatman — 44.15°N, 108.55°WTatman — 44.16°N, 108.55°WOdderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°EWillwood Formatin — 44.35°N, 108.07°WLangpar — 25.20°N, 91.77°E

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The named rock units Alismataceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alismataceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Alismataceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Alismataceae, 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

5 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. 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 Alismataceae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alismataceae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itAlismatales through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ventenat 1799