Arundo
No picture of Arundo was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Arundo itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arundo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonocotyledoneaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 97 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.
9 occurrences of Arundo on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
9 occurrences- Early Cretaceous22%
- Late Cretaceous11%
- Paleocene3%
- Eocene41%
- Miocene11%
- Pleistocene11%
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
4 formations
- Nubia Formation1
- Black Creek Formation1
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Relu Formation1
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The named rock units Arundo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arundo and its relatives
EoceneWhere Arundo and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Chamaecyparis2 sites
- Conocarpus eocenica2 sites
- Dodonaea viscosoides2 sites
- Metasequoia occidentalis2 sites
- Mimosites georgianus2 sites
- Rhizophora eocenica2 sites
- Abies1 site
- Abies concoloroides1 site
- Acer glabroides1 site
- Acrostichum georgianum1 site
- Ailanthus americana1 site
- alexandrinus alexandrinus1 site
- Andromeda grandifolia1 site
- Andromeda parlatorii1 site
- angustus angustus1 site
- Astronium1 site
- Berchemia1 site
- Betula1 site
- Betula fairii1 site
- Bos taurus1 site
- Canna1 site
- Capra aegagrus1 site
- Cardiospermum1 site
- Carex clarkii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Arundo, 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
6 references- The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia3
- The flora of the Cheyenne Sandstone of Kansas2
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China1
- Wendorf and Schild, 19761
- Fossil Plants of the Tertiary Beaverhead Basins in Southwestern Montana1
- Geological Reconnaissance of northeastern Ellesmere Island, District of Franklin1
Each of the 9 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 content1
No picture of Arundo was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Arundo itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arundo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMonocotyledoneae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753