Nyssa

Tupelo, genus Nyssa, is a small genus of deciduous trees with alternate, simple leaves. It is sometimes included in the subfamily Nyssoideae of the dogwood family, Cornaceae, but is placed by other authorities in the family Nyssaceae, as in the APG IV system.

Nyssa

Charles T. Bryson, USDA Agricultural Research Service · CC BY 3.0 us · via Wikipedia/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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
tupeloPBDB
Sits inside
NyssaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 191 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 191 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 20 of 191 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 191 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 40 of 191 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 92 of 191 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 191 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 191 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 5 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 8 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 21 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 20 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 42 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences66 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

191 occurrences of Nyssa on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

191 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

28 formations

Fort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 108.55°WFort Union — 48.15°N, 104.92°WFort Union — 46.52°N, 108.08°WFort Union — 46.41°N, 105.84°WFort Union — 46.57°N, 105.65°WFort Union — 47.30°N, 104.52°WFort Union — 46.37°N, 102.33°WSan Sebastian — 18.30°N, 66.88°WSan Sebastian — 18.37°N, 66.19°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ECalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.70°WRaton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WRaton — 37.17°N, 104.50°WRaton — 37.15°N, 104.62°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 109.00°WDenver — 39.43°N, 102.97°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°EYadagawa — 35.00°N, 136.00°ETokoname — 34.88°N, 136.85°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WBovey Tracey Lignite — 50.58°N, 3.68°WBeaverdam — 42.24°N, 114.08°WTemblor — 36.14°N, 120.36°WDawson Arkose — 39.03°N, 104.30°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WFerris — 41.75°N, 106.63°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WJavelina — 29.40°N, 103.20°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.83°WBacons Castle — 38.16°N, 76.83°WOld Church — 37.67°N, 77.14°W

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The named rock units Nyssa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 139 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nyssa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nyssa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,300 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Nyssa, 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

39 references

Each of the 191 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. 27 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 content2

Picture of Nyssa

Credit
Charles T. Bryson, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Licence
CC BY 3.0 us
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Nyssa sp. · sysbm:sys:NNF116

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNyssaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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