Rumex

The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex, are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial, and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae. Members of this genus are common perennial herbs with a worldwide native distribution in temperate and subtropical climates.

Rumex

Johann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public Domain · 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
dockPBDB
Sits inside
PolygonaceaePBDB
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 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 43 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 43 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 0.0 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Rumex 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

43 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

4 formations

Yagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ESanying — 26.51°N, 100.16°E

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The named rock units Rumex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rumex and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Rumex and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

792 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Rumex, 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

16 references

Each of the 43 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Rumex

Credit
Johann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm )
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rumex 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

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 itPolygonaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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