Sparganium

Searched as Sparganium cf. globipites. The Paleobiology Database treats Sparganium as the accepted name.

Sparganium (bur-reed) is a genus of flowering plants, described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753. It is widespread in wet areas in temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The plants are perennial marsh plants that can grow to 3.5 m (11 ft), depending on the species, with epicene flowers.

Sparganium

Kurt Stüber [1] · 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
Also called
bur-reedPBDB
Sits inside
SparganiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At most 33 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPaleocene — about 12 of 22 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

22 occurrences of Sparganium on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

22 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

2 formations

Fort Union — 46.48°N, 105.67°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 106.17°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 106.06°WFort Union — 44.77°N, 106.09°WWasatch — 44.63°N, 106.17°W

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The named rock units Sparganium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sparganium and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Sparganium and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,015 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Sparganium, 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

1 reference

Each of the 22 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sparganium

Credit
Kurt Stüber [1]
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sparganium was found in Sketchfab.

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

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 itSparganiaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

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