Primula
Primula is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. They include the primrose, a familiar wildflower of banks and verges. Other common species are P. auricula (auricula), P. veris (cowslip), and P. elatior (oxlip). These species and many others are valued for their ornamental flowers. They have been extensively cultivated and hybridised. Primula are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, south into tropical mountains in Ethiopia, Indonesia, and New Guinea, and in temperate southern South America. Almost half of the known species are from the Himalayas.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- primrosePBDB
- Sits inside
- PrimulaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Primula 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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.
Primula and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Primula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
319 taxa- Artemisia3 sites
- Asteraceae3 sites
- Betula3 sites
- Caryophyllaceae3 sites
- Cyperaceae3 sites
- Fabaceae3 sites
- Poaceae3 sites
- Thalictrum3 sites
- Abies2 sites
- Alnus2 sites
- Apiaceae2 sites
- Bupleurum2 sites
- Cedrus2 sites
- Chenopodiaceae2 sites
- Corylus2 sites
- Ephedra2 sites
- Ericaceae2 sites
- Hippophae2 sites
- Juniperus2 sites
- Lamiaceae2 sites
- Liliaceae2 sites
- Oleaceae2 sites
- Osmunda2 sites
- Parnassia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Primula, 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
2 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany2
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire2
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Primula
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- No machine-readable author provided. Pokrajac assumed (based on copyright claims).
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Primula”
- 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 itPrimulaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753