Rumex acetosella
Rumex acetosella, commonly known as red sorrel, sheep's sorrel, field sorrel and sour weed, is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae. Native to Eurasia including the British Isles, the plant and its subspecies are common perennial weeds. It has green arrowhead-shaped leaves and red-tinted deeply ridged stems, and it sprouts from an aggressive and spreading rhizome. The flowers emerge from a tall, upright stem. Female flowers are maroon in color.
Uncredited · 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- Sits inside
- RumexPBDB
- 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.
6 occurrences of Rumex acetosella on record. 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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 the same rock
304 taxa- Carex3 sites
- Cercyon tristis3 sites
- Dyschiriodes globosus3 sites
- Schoenoplectus3 sites
- Aleocharinae2 sites
- Apion2 sites
- Apium2 sites
- Bledius2 sites
- Byrrhus2 sites
- Carex panicea2 sites
- Chara2 sites
- Dryops2 sites
- Elaphrus cupreus2 sites
- Eleocharis2 sites
- Hippuris vulgaris2 sites
- Limnobaris pilistriata2 sites
- Menyanthes trifoliata2 sites
- Potamogeton2 sites
- Potentilla2 sites
- Ranunculus2 sites
- Ranunculus acris2 sites
- Syncalypta2 sites
- Tournotaris bimaculatus2 sites
- Acidota crenata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rumex acetosella, 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- Die pliozaenen Floren von Thueringen, Deutsche Demokratische Republik3
- Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England2
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
Each of the 6 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 Rumex acetosella
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itRumex through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753