Scirpus lacustris

Scirpus lacustris

Amédée Masclef · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
ScirpusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48.07 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

5 occurrences of Scirpus lacustris on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

1 formation

Deccan Intertrappean — 18.95°N, 72.80°E

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The named rock units Scirpus lacustris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scirpus lacustris and its relatives

Eocene

Where Scirpus lacustris and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Scirpus lacustris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Scirpus lacustris

Credit
Amédée Masclef
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scirpus lacustris 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itScirpus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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