Convolvulus
Convolvulus is a genus of about 200 to 250 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution; the Plants of the World Online database currently accepts 227 species and 12 natural hybrids. Common names include bindweed and morning glory; both are names shared with other closely related genera.

Galia ^ · 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
- ConvolvulaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Convolvulus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Convolvulus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Convolvulus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Acacia1 site
- Acanthaceae1 site
- Ailanthus1 site
- Alnus1 site
- Anogeissus pendula1 site
- Apiaceae1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Artemisia1 site
- Asteraceae1 site
- Azadirachta indica1 site
- Bauhinia1 site
- Bergia1 site
- Betula1 site
- Bombax1 site
- Boraginaceae1 site
- Calligonum1 site
- Capparis1 site
- Cerealia1 site
- Cleome1 site
- Corchorus1 site
- Cyperaceae1 site
- Ephedra1 site
- Euphorbia1 site
- Fabaceae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Convolvulus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Convolvulus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Galia ^
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Paige Dansinger
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Convolvulus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itConvolvulaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753