Muehlenbeckia
Muehlenbeckia or maidenhair is a genus of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae. It is native to the borders of the Pacific, including South and North America, Papua New Guinea and Australasia. It has been introduced elsewhere, including Europe. Species vary in their growth habits, many being vines or shrubs. In some environments, rampant species can become weedy and difficult to eradicate.
Uncredited · 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- Sits inside
- PolygonaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
46 occurrences of Muehlenbeckia 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
46 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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.
Muehlenbeckia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Muehlenbeckia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
334 taxa- Acacia30 sites
- Asteraceae30 sites
- Casuarinaceae30 sites
- Cyathea30 sites
- Dodonaea30 sites
- Eucalyptus30 sites
- Podocarpus30 sites
- Agathis29 sites
- Chenopodiaceae29 sites
- Monolete29 sites
- Poaceae29 sites
- Araucaria28 sites
- Cunoniaceae28 sites
- Dacrydium28 sites
- Pteridium28 sites
- Syzygium28 sites
- Myrtaceae27 sites
- Plantago27 sites
- Proteaceae27 sites
- Araliaceae26 sites
- Cyperaceae26 sites
- Dicksonia26 sites
- Leptospermum26 sites
- Elaeocarpus25 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Muehlenbeckia, 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- Early Pleistocene vegetation change in upland south-eastern Australia35
- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia10
- Evidence of Pleistocene plant extinction and diversity from Regatta Point, western Tasmania, Australia1
Each of the 46 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 Muehlenbeckia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Muehlenbeckia 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
- 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 itPolygonaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meisner 1841