Nymphaea pulchella

Nymphaea pulchella is a species of waterlily native to the regions spanning from Central and Southern Mexico to Brazil, as well as from the Bahamas to the Virgin Islands, including St. Croix.

Nymphaea pulchella

Gabriel M. Rolim · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
NymphaeaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At most 10 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrencePaleocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66.5 Mya55.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Nymphaea pulchella on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

1 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

1 formation

Dawson Arkose — 38.83°N, 104.82°W

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The named rock units Nymphaea pulchella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nymphaea pulchella and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Nymphaea pulchella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nymphaea pulchella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Nymphaea pulchella

Credit
Gabriel M. Rolim
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nymphaea pulchella 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.

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What may have been alongside itNymphaea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1962