Phragmites

Phragmites is a genus of six species of large perennial reed grasses found in wetlands throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world.

Phragmites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
common reedPBDB
Sits inside
PoaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 38 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 24 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences100.5 Mya3.6 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Phragmites 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

38 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

15 formations

Itahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.32°N, 138.85°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EOgawa — 36.50°N, 138.00°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EBlack Creek — 33.85°N, 80.55°WBlack Creek — 34.30°N, 79.74°WChu Chua — 51.37°N, 120.15°WChu Chua — 51.36°N, 120.15°WNagaiwa — 36.00°N, 138.00°EChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°ERenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WSepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WLaramie — 44.97°N, 110.67°WFort Union — 49.04°N, 106.58°WAkeyo — 35.36°N, 137.18°EWulong — 30.09°N, 89.54°EChifeng — 44.00°N, 117.00°EKettle River — 49.05°N, 118.91°W

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The named rock units Phragmites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phragmites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phragmites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

430 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Phragmites, 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

18 references

Each of the 38 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Phragmites

Credit
Peter O'Connor aka anemoneprojectors from Stevenage, United Kingdom
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adanson 1763