Poa

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- meadow-grassPBDB
- Sits inside
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Poa 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
1 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.
Poa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Poa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- ? Pyrenomycetidae indet.1 site
- Bryophyta1 site
- Carex1 site
- Cenococcum geophilum1 site
- Cerastium1 site
- Chronomidae indet.1 site
- Cladocera1 site
- Daphnia1 site
- Dicrostonyx torquatus1 site
- Draba1 site
- Dryas octopetala1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Eriophorum1 site
- Festuca1 site
- Foraminifera indet.1 site
- Lepidurus1 site
- Melandrium apetalum1 site
- Minuartia1 site
- Oribatidae indet.1 site
- Oxyria1 site
- Papaver1 site
- Potentilla1 site
- Ranunculus1 site
- Salix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Poa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Poa
- Source
- Wikidata/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 repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.
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