Nymphaea

Nymphaea is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants, and many cultivars have been bred. Some taxa occur as introduced species where they are not native, and some are weeds. Plants of the genus are known commonly as water lilies, or waterlilies in the United Kingdom.

Nymphaea

Fernando Losada Rodríguez · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
water lilyPBDB
Sits inside
NymphaeaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 43 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 43 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Nymphaea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

43 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

6 formations

Raton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EDawson Arkose — 38.83°N, 104.82°WChiquimil — 27.25°S, 66.88°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°E

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The named rock units Nymphaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nymphaea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nymphaea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

600 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Nymphaea, 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

11 references

Each of the 43 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 Nymphaea

Credit
Fernando Losada Rodríguez
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Vampyressa nymphaea · UMMZ:mammals:168944

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows 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.

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What may have been alongside itNymphaeaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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