Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album is a fast-growing annual plant in the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed. Common names include lamb's quarters, melde, goosefoot, wild spinach and fat-hen, though several are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium, for which reason it is often distinguished as white goosefoot.
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- Sits inside
- ChenopodiumPBDB
- 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 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Chenopodium album on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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.
Chenopodium album and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Chenopodium album and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Abies2 sites
- Alnus2 sites
- Apiaceae2 sites
- Artemisia2 sites
- Asplenium2 sites
- Asteraceae2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Botryococcus2 sites
- Bryophyta2 sites
- Carex2 sites
- Carpinus2 sites
- Caryophyllaceae2 sites
- Cedrus2 sites
- Celtis2 sites
- Cerastium2 sites
- Cerealia2 sites
- Corylus2 sites
- Cyperaceae2 sites
- Ephedra2 sites
- Epilobium2 sites
- Grewia2 sites
- Ilex2 sites
- Jasminum2 sites
- Juglans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chenopodium album, 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
3 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany2
- Die pliozaenen Floren von Thueringen, Deutsche Demokratische Republik2
- Miocene floras in the lower Rhenish basin and their ecological interpretation1
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 content3
Picture of Chenopodium album
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Rasbak
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Chenopodium album · rng:vasc:p0003852
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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
- 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 itChenopodium through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753