Anthemis
Anthemis is a genus of aromatic flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, closely related to Chamaemelum, and like that genus, known by the common name chamomile; some species are also called dog-fennel or mayweed. Anthemis are native to the Mediterranean region and southwest Asia east to Iran. A number of species have also become naturalized in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- camomilePBDB
- Sits inside
- AsteraceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
37 occurrences of Anthemis 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
37 occurrences- Miocene3%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene81%
- Holocene3%
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.
Anthemis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Anthemis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Chenopodiaceae37 sites
- Taraxacum36 sites
- Pinus35 sites
- Poaceae35 sites
- Aster34 sites
- Quercus34 sites
- Artemisia27 sites
- Isoetes27 sites
- Brassicaceae25 sites
- Ericaceae24 sites
- Ephedra22 sites
- Olea19 sites
- Ephedra distachya17 sites
- Apiaceae16 sites
- Plantago16 sites
- Cupressaceae15 sites
- Cyperaceae13 sites
- Cedrus12 sites
- <Trilete ornamented>10 sites
- Caryophyllaceae10 sites
- <Unknown palynology taxa>7 sites
- Alnus7 sites
- Betula7 sites
- <Trilete psilate>5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Anthemis, 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
7 referencesEach of the 37 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Anthemis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anthemis 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Anthemis”
- 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 itAsteraceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753