Cymodocea serrulata
Oceana serrulata, commonly known as serrated ribbon seagrass, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cymodoceaceae. It is the sole species in genus Oceana. It is a marine rhizomatous hydrogeophyte native to the western and central Indo-Pacific region, ranging from the Red Sea and East African coast to Madagascar, tropical Asia, northern Australia, and the western Pacific.
No picture of Cymodocea serrulata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cymodocea serrulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CymodoceaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
2 occurrences of Cymodocea serrulata on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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.
Cymodocea serrulata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cymodocea serrulata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Amphitoites parisiensis1 site
- Cymodocea nodosa1 site
- Prototomus girardoti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cymodocea serrulata, 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
2 references- The sea-grasses of the world1
- Etude sure une plante fossile des depots du Tertiaire marin du sud de Celebes Cymodocea micheloti (Wat) nob1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cymodocea serrulata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cymodocea serrulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cymodocea serrulata 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 itCymodocea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aschers and Magnus 1870