Cupania

Cupania is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae. It includes 58 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Mexico and south Florida through Central America, the Caribbean, and South America to northern Argentina.

Cupania

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 23 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48.07 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

23 occurrences of Cupania 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

23 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

4 formations

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ECulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WLigorio Márquez — 36.77°S, 71.83°WCullen — 52.87°S, 68.41°W

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The named rock units Cupania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupania and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cupania and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

307 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cupania, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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 Cupania

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Anaderdeleon assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cupania 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 itSapindaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753