Canna

Canna is a genus of flowering plants consisting of 10 species known as cannas or canna lilies. It is the only genus in the family Cannaceae. All of the genus's species are native to the American tropics and were naturalized in Europe, India and Africa in the 1860s. Although they grow native to the tropics, most cultivars have been developed in temperate climates and are easy to grow in most countries of the world, as long as they receive at least 6–8 hours average sunlight during the summer, and are moved to a warm location for the winter. See the Canna cultivar gallery for photographs of Canna cultivars.

Canna

Muhammad Mahdi Karim , edited by Fir0002 · GFDL 1.2 · 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
Sits inside
CannaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya23.04 Mya85 Mya4 Mya

5 occurrences of Canna on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

5 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

3 formations

McRae — 33.13°N, 107.25°WLance — 43.08°N, 104.63°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°E

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The named rock units Canna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Canna and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Canna and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

379 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Canna, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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

Picture of Canna

Credit
Muhammad Mahdi Karim , edited by Fir0002
Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Canna 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.

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What may have been alongside itCannaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

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