Typha

Typha is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. These plants have a variety of common names, in British English bulrush or reedmace, in American English cattail or punks, in Australia cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand raupō, bullrush, cattail, or reed.

Typha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
bulrushPBDB
Sits inside
TyphaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 190 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 190 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 190 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 190 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 190 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 55 of 190 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 190 occurrencesPleistocene — about 62 of 190 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 9 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 10 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 21 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 81 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

190 occurrences of Typha 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

190 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

29 formations

Willwood — 44.17°N, 108.48°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.45°N, 108.22°WWillwood — 44.28°N, 108.05°WOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.35°ELance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.61°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.37°WChloropagus — 39.58°N, 119.35°WChloropagus — 39.79°N, 118.94°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WMiddlegate — 39.25°N, 117.88°WCretaceous — 43.21°N, 104.63°WCretaceous — 43.09°N, 104.51°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WYousashan — 34.80°N, 90.75°EYousashan — 34.80°N, 91.00°ETatman — 44.16°N, 108.55°WElandsfontyn — 33.97°S, 18.12°EBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°WDisaster Peak — 38.50°N, 120.00°WMerhten — 37.61°N, 120.59°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WDesert Peak — 39.39°N, 118.97°WSalmon City — 45.18°N, 113.88°WHempstead — 50.71°N, 1.45°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ESantibañez del Val — 41.98°N, 3.52°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.83°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°E

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The named rock units Typha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 136 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Typha and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Typha and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Typha, 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

46 references

Each of the 190 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. 34 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 content2

Picture of Typha

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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. Linnaeus 1753