Vitis

Vitis (grapevine) is a genus of about 80 species of twining plants in the family Vitaceae. The genus consists of species predominantly from the Northern Hemisphere. It is economically important as the source of grapes, both for direct consumption of the fruit and for fermentation to produce wine. The study and cultivation of grapevines is called viticulture.

Vitis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 267 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 267 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 23 of 267 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 53 of 267 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 22 of 267 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 109 of 267 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 267 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 267 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.4 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 3 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 22 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 18 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 9 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 11 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 16 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 16 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 13 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 20 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 24 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 39 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

267 occurrences of Vitis 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

267 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

37 formations

Hell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 46.42°N, 103.98°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.79°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 46.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 45.39°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.82°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.86°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WBagshot — 50.70°N, 2.03°WLondon Clay — 52.00°N, 0.82°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 50.93°N, 1.48°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.75°WFort Union — 45.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.00°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 48.90°N, 104.92°WFort Union — 43.93°N, 108.65°WFort Union — 41.37°N, 109.21°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 108.72°WRenova — 45.50°N, 112.50°WLance — 43.09°N, 104.61°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.61°WDawson arkose — 39.43°N, 102.97°WDawson arkose — 39.03°N, 104.30°WDawson arkose — 39.12°N, 104.17°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EBovey Tracey Lignite — 50.58°N, 3.68°WOdderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°ERaton — 37.62°N, 104.78°WRaton — 37.40°N, 104.65°WTullock — 46.41°N, 105.84°WTullock — 46.58°N, 105.88°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°EDaido — 36.67°N, 138.83°EChausuyama — 36.58°N, 138.17°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EValentine — 42.00°N, 100.43°WHeadon Beds — 50.75°N, 1.60°WTienen — 50.78°N, 5.08°ECretaceous — 43.09°N, 104.53°WBad Heart — 55.68°N, 120.10°WJohn Day — 44.14°N, 120.27°W

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The named rock units Vitis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 144 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vitis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vitis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,603 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Vitis, 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

55 references

Each of the 267 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. 43 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 Vitis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vitis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itVitaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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