Rubus

Rubus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, most commonly known as brambles. Fruits of various species are known as raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, cloudberries, and bristleberries. It is a diverse genus, and estimates of the number of Rubus species vary from 250 to over 1,000, found across all continents except Antarctica.

Rubus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
bramblePBDB
Sits inside
RosaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 185 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 185 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 185 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 36 of 185 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 113 of 185 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 185 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 185 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 13 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 10 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 28 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 46 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 11 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 16 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

185 occurrences of Rubus 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

185 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

11 formations

Iguincha — 3.40°S, 79.10°WIguincha — 3.00°S, 79.00°WIguincha — 3.34°S, 79.07°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°EHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WBovey Tracey Lignite — 50.58°N, 3.68°WLatrero — 3.36°S, 79.08°WBagshot — 50.63°N, 1.93°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°WSanying — 26.51°N, 100.16°EAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.57°W

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The named rock units Rubus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 165 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rubus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rubus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

889 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Rubus, 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

30 references

Each of the 185 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. 18 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 Rubus

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No 3D scan of Rubus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

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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