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Alismatales

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	54946	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=54946

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Alismatales	order	belongs to Alismatidae	stated without evidence	Mabberley, 2000
Alismatales	order	belongs to Monocots	implied	Taylor et al., 2008
Alismatales	unranked clade	belongs to Petrosaviaceae	stated without evidence	Benzecry and Brack-Hanes, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

65 (71%)

First Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D.J. Mabberley. 2000. The Plant-Book, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Alismataceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	22	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	11.6 Ma Miocene
Aponogetonaceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Butomaceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cymodoceaceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	15	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Juncaginaceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	26	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Najadaceae family	listed (PBDB)	209	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Posidoniaceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	21	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Ruppiaceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Scheuchzeriaceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Zannichelliaceae family	listed (PBDB)	6	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Zosteraceae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	47	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Pennipollis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	66	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Year	Name and Author
1820	Alismatales Brown
2000	Alismatales Mabberley
2008	Alismatales Benzecry and Brack-Hanes p. 24
2008	Alismatales Taylor et al. p. 1029

Mabberley D.J. (2000) The Plant-Book, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 858 p.

Benzecry A., Brack-Hanes S. D. (2008) A new hydrocharitacean seagrass from the Eocene of Florida, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 157, 19-30

Taylor E., Taylor T., et al (2008) Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, 1-1230

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!