Nelumbo

Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers. Members are commonly called lotus, though the name is also applied to various other plants and plant groups, including the unrelated genus Lotus. Members outwardly resemble those in the family Nymphaeaceae, but Nelumbo is actually very distant from that family.

Nelumbo

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 44 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 44 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 44 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 44 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 8 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka108 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Nelumbo on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

44 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

14 formations

Hell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 45.65°N, 103.62°WHell Creek — 46.15°N, 103.81°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.32°N, 103.86°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 103.98°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WFort Union — 46.00°N, 103.00°WGolden Valley — 46.97°N, 102.62°WGolden Valley — 46.98°N, 102.67°WGolden Valley — 47.17°N, 102.83°WGolden Valley — 47.38°N, 101.95°WAspen Shale — 42.09°N, 110.51°WTura — 25.50°N, 90.14°ETura — 25.49°N, 90.77°EOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EEagle — 45.01°N, 108.89°WRavenscrag — 49.51°N, 109.02°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WShulan — 44.33°N, 127.00°EGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EChangchang — 20.00°N, 110.50°EAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°W

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The named rock units Nelumbo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nelumbo and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nelumbo and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

589 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Nelumbo, 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

18 references

Each of the 44 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. 6 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 content2

Picture of Nelumbo

Credit
Peripitus
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itNelumbonaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adanson 1763