Scirpus

Scirpus is a genus of grass-like species in the sedge family Cyperaceae many with the common names club-rush, wood club-rush or bulrush. They mostly inhabit wetlands and damp locations.

Scirpus

Jennifer Anderson. United States, IA, Scott Co., Davenport, Nahant Marsh. 2002. · Public Domain · 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 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 160 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 160 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 160 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 18 of 160 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 108 of 160 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 160 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 160 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 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 7 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 16 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 36 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 17 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 18 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 13 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

160 occurrences of Scirpus 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

160 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

5 formations

odderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°EBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ECakeham B — 50.76°N, 0.86°WDeccan Intertrappean — 18.95°N, 72.80°E

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The named rock units Scirpus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 149 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scirpus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scirpus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

449 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Scirpus, 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

19 references

Each of the 160 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. 7 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 Scirpus

Credit
Jennifer Anderson. United States, IA, Scott Co., Davenport, Nahant Marsh. 2002.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scirpus 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 MioceneThe world it lived on

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