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Morus (mulberry)

Angiospermae - Moraceae

Taxonomy
Morus was named by Linnaeus (1753). It is extant.

It was assigned to Moraceae by Linnaeus (1758), Knowlton (1919), Chandler (1961), Lakhanpal et al. (1976), Chauhan (1991) and Liu et al. (1996).

Species
M. affinis, M. symmetrica
Species lacking formal opinion data
M. alba, M. sibirica

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1753Morus Linnaeus
1758Morus Linnaeus
1919Morus Knowlton
1961Morus Chandler p. 144
1976Morus Lakhanpal et al.
1991Morus Chauhan
1996Morus Liu et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumSpermatophyta
classAngiospermae
RankNameAuthor
—Rosids
familyMoraceaeLink 1835
genusMorus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Morus Linnaeus 1753 [mulberry]
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†Morus affinis Lesquereux 1871
†Morus symmetrica Cockerell 1908
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Diet: "photoautotroph"p
Created: 2011-07-22 00:04:15
Modified: 2011-07-21 09:04:15
Source: p = phylum
Reference: Kiessling 2009

Age range: base of the Paleocene to the top of the Holocene or 66.00000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (30 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0USA (Wyoming) Morus montanensis (57995)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8United Kingdom (England) Morus sp. (22811)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Morus symmetrica (24209)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Russian Federation (Tiumensky) Morus sibirica (22849)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Russian Federation (Tomsk) Morus sibirica (23888 23891) Morus sibirica, Morus glabra (22888 22889 23663 23669)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Russian Federation (Tomsk) Morus sp. (23908) Morus tertiaria (23906 23907)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333USA (Massachusetts) Morus sp. (231824)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333China (Zhejiang) Morus asymmetrica (224041)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Germany (Bayern) Morus tertiaria (28284)
Langhian - Serravallian15.97 - 11.62Poland (Silesia) Morus alba (28442)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Germany (Brandenburg) Morus germanica (23618)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Russian Federation (Omsk) Morus sibirica (24324) Morus sp. (24099) Morus tertiaria (24094 24100 24286 24287 24320)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333China (Jiangsu) Morus asymmetrica (223931)
Messinian - Zanclean7.246 - 3.6Germany (Sachsen) Morus aldanensis (27277)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Germany (Thuringia) Morus ucrainica (22778)
Quaternary2.58 - 0.0India (Rajasthan) Morus sp. (228785)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0India (Uttarakhand) Morus sp. (228762)