Clematis
Clematis is a genus of about 380 species within the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. Their garden hybrids and cultivars have been popular among gardeners, beginning with Clematis 'Jackmanii', a garden staple since 1862. More cultivars are being produced constantly, mainly of Chinese and Japanese origin.
Jolly Janner · Public Domain · 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
- clematisPBDB
- Sits inside
- RanunculaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 53 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.
12 occurrences of Clematis on record. 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
12 occurrences- Paleocene8%
- Oligocene3%
- Miocene14%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene62%
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
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The named rock units Clematis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
391 taxa- Asteraceae8 sites
- Poaceae8 sites
- Acacia7 sites
- Acalypha7 sites
- Chenopodiaceae7 sites
- Cyperaceae7 sites
- Dodonaea7 sites
- Olea7 sites
- Podocarpus7 sites
- Syzygium7 sites
- Agathis6 sites
- Araucaria6 sites
- Callitris6 sites
- Casuarinaceae6 sites
- Cyathea6 sites
- Dacrydium6 sites
- Davalliaceae6 sites
- Elaeocarpus6 sites
- Eucalyptus6 sites
- Exocarpos6 sites
- Lonchocarpus6 sites
- Macaranga6 sites
- Mallotus6 sites
- Monolete6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Clematis, 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- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia6
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China2
- Geology of the Olduvai Gorge1
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
- Fossil Plants of the Tertiary Beaverhead Basins in Southwestern Montana1
- Miocenska Flora ze Starych Gliwic na Slasku (Miocene Flora of Stare Gliwice in Upper Silesia)1
Each of the 12 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 content2
Picture of Clematis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jolly Janner
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Clematis”
- 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 itRanunculaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753