Potentilla

Potentilla is a genus containing over 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae.

Potentilla

Olivier Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
cinquefoilPBDB
Sits inside
RosaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 58 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 58 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 58 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

58 occurrences of Potentilla 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

58 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

3 formations

Renova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WHvitland Beds — 81.09°N, 89.96°WZanda — 31.73°N, 79.56°E

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The named rock units Potentilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Potentilla and its relatives

Miocene

Where Potentilla and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

672 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Potentilla, 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

13 references

Each of the 58 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Potentilla

Credit
Olivier Pichard
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Potentilla was found in Sketchfab.

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

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