Nuphar

Nuphar is a genus of aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae, with a temperate to subarctic Northern Hemisphere distribution. Common names include water-lily, pond-lily, alligator-bonnet or bonnet lily, and spatterdock.

Nuphar

OlexandrBohdanets · CC BY 4.0 · 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
NymphaeaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 45 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 45 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 45 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 45 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 45 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 45 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences66 Mya129 ka74 Mya0 Mya

45 occurrences of Nuphar on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

45 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

9 formations

John Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.57°N, 119.63°WKucha — 42.00°N, 83.00°EKucha — 40.08°N, 94.83°EKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°ETokoname — 34.67°N, 136.92°EHaughton — 75.41°N, 89.43°WYousashan — 34.80°N, 91.00°EAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Nuphar has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuphar and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nuphar and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

476 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Nuphar, 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

19 references

Each of the 45 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. 7 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 content1

Picture of Nuphar

Credit
OlexandrBohdanets
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nuphar 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

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 itNymphaeaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1809