Carex pseudocyperus

Carex pseudocyperus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name cyperus sedge or hop sedge. It grows in marshes, swamps, and the margins of ponds, rivers and canals. The stems can be up to 90 centimetres (35 in) with one male spike and 3 to 5 pendulous female spikes, and bright yellow-green leaves to 1.2 metres.

Carex pseudocyperus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 7.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Carex pseudocyperus 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

5 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 Carex pseudocyperus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carex pseudocyperus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Carex pseudocyperus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Carex pseudocyperus, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 Carex pseudocyperus

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No 3D scan of Carex pseudocyperus 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

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

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What may have been alongside itCarex through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

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