Ampelocissus

Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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.
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
6 occurrences of Ampelocissus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ampelocissus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ampelocissus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ampelocissus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Anacardium1 site
- Anguimorpha1 site
- Anona peruviana1 site
- Arctocyon primaevus1 site
- Asiatosuchus depressifrons1 site
- Aves1 site
- Berruchelus1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Camptognathosaurus walbeckensis1 site
- Carpolithes1 site
- cf. Paleocarpinus sp.1 site
- Champsosaurus1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Chiromyoides mauberti1 site
- Cissus willardi1 site
- Cornaceae1 site
- Coupatezia1 site
- Cucurbites1 site
- Cupanoides peruvianus1 site
- Diaphyodus1 site
- Dicrocynodontidae1 site
- Edaphodon1 site
- Euphorbiotheca1 site
- Fabaceae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ampelocissus, 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
4 references- Fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon3
- First Clarkforkian Equivalent Land Mammal Age in the Latest Paleocene Basal Sparnacian Facies of Europe: Fauna, Flora, Paleoenvironment and (Bio)stratigraphy1
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene1
- Early Tertiary fruits and seeds from Belen, Peru1
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 Ampelocissus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Vinayaraj
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ampelocissus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Planchon 1884