Ranunculus acris
Ranunculus acris is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, and is one of the more common buttercups across Europe and temperate Eurasia. Common names include meadow buttercup, tall buttercup, common buttercup and giant buttercup.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RanunculusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Ranunculus acris 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- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene75%
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.
Ranunculus acris and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ranunculus acris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
306 taxa- Carex3 sites
- Eleocharis3 sites
- Potamogeton3 sites
- Potentilla3 sites
- Schoenoplectus3 sites
- Amara (Cyrtonotus) torrida2 sites
- Apion2 sites
- Artemisia2 sites
- Asteraceae2 sites
- Bembidion (Testedium) bipunctatum2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Brassicaceae2 sites
- Byrrhus2 sites
- Candona candida2 sites
- Candona neglecta2 sites
- Caryophyllaceae2 sites
- Cercyon tristis2 sites
- Characaea indet.2 sites
- Cyperaceae2 sites
- Cypris pubera2 sites
- Dianthus carthusianorum2 sites
- Dilophus2 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus2 sites
- Elaphrus cupreus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ranunculus acris, 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
3 references- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire2
- Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England1
- Allochthonous seed and fruit floras from the Pliocene of the Lower Rhine Basin1
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. 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 Ranunculus acris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRanunculus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753