Nelumbo aureavallis

Nelumbo aureavallis is an extinct species of flowering plants in the lotus family known from Ypresian age Eocene fossils found in western North Dakota, USA.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 4.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEocene56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56.5 Mya50.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Nelumbo aureavallis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

4 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

Golden 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°W

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The named rock units Nelumbo aureavallis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nelumbo aureavallis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nelumbo aureavallis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nelumbo aureavallis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Nelumbo aureavallis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nelumbo aureavallis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nelumbo aureavallis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itNelumbo through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hickey 1977