Ranunculus sceleratus

Ranunculus sceleratus known by the common names celery-leaved buttercup, celery-leaf buttercup, and cursed buttercup is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It has a circumpolar distribution in the northern hemisphere, native to temperate and boreal North America and Eurasia, where it grows in wet and moist habitats, including ponds and streambanks.

Ranunculus sceleratus

Jörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · 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
Sits inside
RanunculusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–2.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Ranunculus sceleratus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

14 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

Santa Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°E

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The named rock units Ranunculus sceleratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ranunculus sceleratus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Ranunculus sceleratus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

399 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ranunculus sceleratus, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Ranunculus sceleratus

Credit
Jörg Hempel
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ranunculus sceleratus 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

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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 itRanunculus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

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