Thalictrum flavum
Thalictrum flavum, known by the common names common meadow-rue, poor man's rhubarb, and yellow meadow-rue, is a flowering plant species in the family Ranunculaceae. Its native range covers temperate regions of Eurasia and North Africa. Growing to 100 cm (39 in) tall by 45 cm (18 in) broad, it is an herbaceous perennial producing clusters of fluffy yellow fragrant flowers in summer.
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- Sits inside
- ThalictrumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
13 occurrences of Thalictrum flavum 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
13 occurrences- Miocene6%
- Pliocene2%
- Pleistocene92%
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.
Thalictrum flavum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Thalictrum flavum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Tournotaris bimaculatus7 sites
- Carex5 sites
- Schoenoplectus5 sites
- Chara4 sites
- Menyanthes trifoliata4 sites
- Stachys palustris4 sites
- Anotylus rugosus3 sites
- Donacia impressa3 sites
- Olophrum fuscum3 sites
- Otiorhynchus (Pendragon) ovatus3 sites
- Potentilla3 sites
- Aleocharinae2 sites
- Bembidion (Trepanedoris) doris2 sites
- Bruchidius debilis2 sites
- Cercyon tristis2 sites
- Cicuta virosa2 sites
- Colymbetes2 sites
- Limnobaris pilistriata2 sites
- Mentha aquatica2 sites
- Ranunculus lingua2 sites
- Salix reticulata2 sites
- Actinopteri1 site
- Agonum1 site
- Agroeca1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Thalictrum flavum, 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
2 references- Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England12
- Die "Saugbaggerflora", eine Frucht- und Samenflora aus dem Grenzbereich Miozaen- Pliozaen von Sessenheim im Elsass (Frankreich)1
Each of the 13 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 Thalictrum flavum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kurt Stüber [1]
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Thalictrum flavum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itThalictrum through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753