Spiraea

Spiraea, sometimes spelled spirea in common names, and commonly known as meadowsweets or steeplebushes, is a genus of about 80 to 100 species of shrubs in the family Rosaceae. They are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with the greatest diversity in eastern Asia.

Spiraea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 24 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 24 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Spiraea 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

24 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

10 formations

Itahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WZanda — 31.73°N, 79.56°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WMula — 29.10°N, 100.67°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EKucha — 42.00°N, 83.00°EBailuyuan — 34.50°N, 109.50°EZhangcu — 37.08°N, 113.00°E

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The named rock units Spiraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spiraea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spiraea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

403 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Spiraea, 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

12 references

Each of the 24 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 content2

Picture of Spiraea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itRosaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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