Agrostis

Agrostis is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world.

A picture published with the record for Agrostis. What it shows has not been checked.

Rasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
bentgrassPBDB
Sits inside
PlantaePBDB

Time the record covers

At most 29 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Eocene — about 0 of 1 occurrenceOligocene — about 0 of 1 occurrenceOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–8.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Agrostis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1 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.

Agrostis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Agrostis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Agrostis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Agrostis

Credit
Rasbak
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Agrostis 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPlantae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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