Schoenoplectus
Schoenoplectus is a genus of plants in the sedge family with a cosmopolitan distribution. Note that the name bulrush is also applied to species in the unrelated genus Typha as well as to other sedges. The genus Schoenoplectus was formerly considered part of Scirpus, but recent phylogenetic data shows that they are not closely related.
Bernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5 · 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
- CyperaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
17 occurrences of Schoenoplectus 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
17 occurrences- Miocene5%
- Pliocene31%
- Pleistocene65%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Schoenoplectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Schoenoplectus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Schoenoplectus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
356 taxa- Carex10 sites
- Aleocharinae5 sites
- Cercyon tristis5 sites
- Chara5 sites
- Menyanthes trifoliata5 sites
- Potentilla5 sites
- Thalictrum flavum5 sites
- Aphodius4 sites
- Dryops4 sites
- Eleocharis4 sites
- Hippuris vulgaris4 sites
- Hydrobius fuscipes4 sites
- Limnobaris pilistriata4 sites
- Ranunculus4 sites
- Ranunculus lingua4 sites
- Anotylus rugosus3 sites
- Betula3 sites
- Carex panicea3 sites
- Cicuta virosa3 sites
- Donacia impressa3 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus3 sites
- Elaphrus cupreus3 sites
- Eucnecosum brachypterum3 sites
- Helophorus brevipalpis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Schoenoplectus, 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
5 references- Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England9
- Die pliozaenen Floren von Thueringen, Deutsche Demokratische Republik4
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire2
- Rise of herbaceous diversity at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: First insight from fossils1
- Die "Saugbaggerflora", eine Frucht- und Samenflora aus dem Grenzbereich Miozaen- Pliozaen von Sessenheim im Elsass (Frankreich)1
Each of the 17 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. 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 Schoenoplectus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Bernd Haynold
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Schoenoplectus 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 itCyperaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reichenbach 1888