Azolla

Azolla

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SalviniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 292 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 82 of 292 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 90 of 292 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 292 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 32 of 292 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 61 of 292 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 292 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 292 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 7 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 40 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 46 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 56 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 9 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 7 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 19 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 8 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 23 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

292 occurrences of Azolla on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

292 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

39 formations

Fort Union — 44.80°N, 106.00°WFort Union — 43.50°N, 104.90°WFort Union — 45.58°N, 103.55°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.71°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 47.92°N, 106.18°WHell Creek — 46.61°N, 100.64°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WLa Colonia — 42.99°S, 67.67°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WScollard — 52.72°N, 116.00°WScollard — 53.38°N, 113.92°WScollard — 53.55°N, 113.50°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.62°S, 68.43°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.63°S, 68.45°WChenque — 45.86°S, 67.57°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WBrazeau — 52.72°N, 116.00°WPedro Luro — 38.89°S, 62.10°WPedro Luro — 38.81°S, 62.19°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EPaskapoo — 54.33°N, 118.75°WPaskapoo — 52.27°N, 113.80°WPaskapoo — 52.72°N, 116.00°WRavenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WMost — 50.40°N, 13.57°EWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WAllenby — 49.22°N, 119.96°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°WWindrow — 44.24°N, 94.98°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.47°N, 112.77°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.46°N, 112.67°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EHuitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WAllen — 37.92°S, 68.48°WAllen — 38.78°S, 67.93°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.30°S, 56.75°WLoncoche — 36.53°S, 69.82°WMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°ESobral? — 64.25°S, 56.72°WCurlew — 23.65°S, 150.98°E

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The named rock units Azolla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 105 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Azolla and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Azolla and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Azolla, 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

64 references

Each of the 292 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. 52 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 content1

Picture of Azolla

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Azolla 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1783