Rosa

A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. The plants range in size and form, from trailing and erect shrubs to climbers up to 7 metres (23 ft) in height. Sharp prickles appear on the stems of many species. Their flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through pinks, reds, oranges and yellows.

Rosa

Stan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
rosePBDB
Sits inside
RosaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 53 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 53 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 53 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 18 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 53 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Rosa 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

53 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

18 formations

John Day — 44.64°N, 120.30°WJohn Day — 44.95°N, 120.33°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WJohn Day — 44.15°N, 120.31°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 120.28°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EOgawa — 36.50°N, 138.00°EOhoka — 36.42°N, 138.00°EEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°EGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WPyramid — 39.90°N, 119.55°WChallis Volcanics — 44.36°N, 114.22°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EShuiquliu — 43.67°N, 126.50°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EBailuyuan — 34.50°N, 109.50°EXiaolongtan — 23.33°N, 104.28°ESayama — 35.78°N, 139.38°E

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The named rock units Rosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rosa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rosa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

776 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Rosa, 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

27 references

Each of the 53 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. 15 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 Rosa

Credit
Stan Shebs
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rosa 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.

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What may have been alongside itRosaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753