Salvinia

Salvinia or watermosses is a genus of free-floating aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae. The genus is named in honor of 17th-century Italian naturalist Anton Maria Salvini, and the generic name was first published in 1754 by French botanist Jean-François Séguier in Plantae Veronenses, a description of the plants found around Verona. Twelve species are recognized, at least three of which are believed to be hybrids in part because their sporangia are found to be empty.

Salvinia

Kurt Stüber [1] · 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
watermossPBDB
Sits inside
SalviniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 166 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 166 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 166 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 45 of 166 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 25 of 166 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 77 of 166 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 166 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 166 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–55 Mya — about 11 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 25 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 12 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 21 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 31 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

166 occurrences of Salvinia 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

166 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

21 formations

Willwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.45°N, 108.22°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 110.00°WGolden Valley — 45.50°N, 103.25°WGolden Valley — 46.98°N, 102.00°WGolden Valley — 47.98°N, 102.05°WGolden Valley — 47.17°N, 102.83°WGolden Valley — 47.08°N, 102.83°WGolden Valley — 47.38°N, 101.95°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 102.82°WGolden Valley — 47.39°N, 103.25°WGolden Valley — 46.87°N, 102.99°WWasatch — 41.72°N, 107.80°WWasatch — 41.69°N, 107.88°WWasatch — 41.69°N, 108.20°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 108.38°WWasatch — 41.82°N, 108.03°WWasatch — 41.92°N, 108.17°WWasatch — 42.33°N, 108.22°WPoznan — 51.03°N, 16.78°ETienen — 51.32°N, 6.00°ETienen — 50.42°N, 4.22°ETienen — 50.42°N, 4.22°EChangchang — 20.00°N, 110.50°EChangchang — 19.63°N, 110.45°EWillwood Formatin — 44.35°N, 108.07°WTatman — 44.16°N, 108.55°WItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WBovey Tracey Lignite — 50.58°N, 3.68°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.24°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WCerrejón — 11.13°N, 72.56°WPalo Pintado — 25.81°S, 65.48°WYousashan — 34.80°N, 91.00°EGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EXiananshan — 29.15°N, 121.23°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°ESubathu — 31.70°N, 76.73°E

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The named rock units Salvinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 113 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Salvinia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Salvinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

679 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Salvinia, 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

28 references

Each of the 166 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. 16 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 Salvinia

Credit
Kurt Stüber [1]
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adanson 1763