Ampelopsis

Ampelopsis, commonly known as peppervine or porcelainberry, is a genus of climbing shrubs, in the grape family Vitaceae. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek: ἅμπελος (ampelos), which means "vine". The genus was named in 1803. It is disjunctly distributed in eastern Asia and eastern North America extending to Mexico. Ampelopsis is primarily found in mountainous regions in temperate zones with some species in montane forests at mid-altitudes in subtropical to tropical regions. Ampelopsis glandulosa is a popular garden plant and an invasive weed.

Ampelopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VitaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 183 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 105 of 183 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 13 of 183 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 183 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 183 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 183 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 183 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–64 Mya — about 12 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 17 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 26 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 52 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 9 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–9.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.9–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–836 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences72.2 Mya3.6 Mya92 Mya836 ka

183 occurrences of Ampelopsis 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

183 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

21 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.03°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 44.21°N, 107.90°WFort Union — 44.27°N, 107.97°WFort Union — 44.50°N, 108.33°WFort Union — 46.32°N, 103.88°WFort Union — 42.00°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 41.16°N, 108.92°WFort Union — 41.52°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 41.46°N, 108.71°WFort Union — 41.56°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.83°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 107.17°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 43.90°N, 107.52°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 101.72°WFort Union — 42.77°N, 105.38°WFort Union — 40.59°N, 107.69°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 45.86°N, 106.80°WFort Union — 45.88°N, 106.62°WFort Union — 46.17°N, 110.15°WFort Union — 45.91°N, 106.22°WFort Union — 46.09°N, 106.72°WFort Union — 46.88°N, 104.93°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 108.89°WFort Union — 44.80°N, 106.95°WFort Union — 43.97°N, 106.58°WFort Union — 43.93°N, 108.65°WFort Union — 41.34°N, 109.21°WFort Union — 45.47°N, 103.21°WFort Union — 47.97°N, 102.55°WFort Union — 45.92°N, 101.55°WFort Union — 47.00°N, 103.00°WFort Union — 41.71°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.29°N, 108.05°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.18°WGolden Valley — 47.31°N, 102.11°WGolden Valley — 47.00°N, 101.55°WGolden Valley — 47.13°N, 101.82°WGolden Valley — 47.08°N, 102.83°WTullock — 46.20°N, 106.29°WTullock — 46.41°N, 105.84°WTullock — 45.77°N, 105.12°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WProtection — 49.00°N, 124.00°WMiddle Park — 40.07°N, 106.10°WEvanston — 41.27°N, 110.97°WLivingston — 45.88°N, 110.60°WLivingston — 45.85°N, 110.86°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WDawson Arkose — 39.03°N, 104.30°WCoalmont — 40.86°N, 106.34°WShoshone? — 39.32°N, 105.90°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WLaramie — 39.06°N, 104.17°WFort Union? — 43.04°N, 104.77°WGuchengzi — 41.84°N, 123.90°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EWulonggu — 47.52°N, 87.08°E

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The named rock units Ampelopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ampelopsis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Ampelopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

674 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 124 sites for Ampelopsis, 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

26 references

Each of the 183 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 Ampelopsis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ampelopsis 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 itVitaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Michaux 1803