Draba
Draba is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, commonly known as whitlow-grasses.

Uncredited · 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- Also called
- Whitlow grassPBDB
- Sits inside
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Draba 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
2 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.
Draba and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Draba and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
298 taxa- Carex2 sites
- Potentilla2 sites
- Ranunculus2 sites
- ? Pyrenomycetidae indet.1 site
- Acidota crenata1 site
- Aclypea opaca1 site
- Aegialia (Psammoporus) sabuleti1 site
- Agabus (Acatodes) arcticus1 site
- Agabus (Acatodes) congener1 site
- Agabus (Acatodes) sturmii1 site
- Agabus (Gaurodytes) bipustulatus1 site
- Agabus (Gaurodytes) nebulosus1 site
- Agonum sahlbergi1 site
- Agonum sexpunctatum1 site
- Agonum versutum1 site
- Amara1 site
- Amara (Cyrtonotus) torrida1 site
- Amara (Paracelia) quenseli1 site
- Amara erratica1 site
- Amara interstitialis1 site
- Amara municipalis1 site
- Anotylus gibbulus1 site
- Antherophagus pallens1 site
- Anthicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Draba, 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
2 references- Interglacial remains of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus (?)) from North Greenland1
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
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. 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 Draba
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Draba 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Draba”
- 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 itPlantae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753