Cupanites
No picture of Cupanites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cupanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SapindaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
2 occurrences of Cupanites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous50%
- Eocene50%
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
2 formations
- Comox Formation · Nanaimo Group1
- Rockdale Formation · Wilcox Group1
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The named rock units Cupanites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cupanites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cupanites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Combretum2 sites
- Amentotaxus1 site
- Annona1 site
- Apocynophyllum1 site
- Artocarpus1 site
- Artocarpus lessigiana1 site
- Asplenites1 site
- Bauhinia gigantea1 site
- Calycites1 site
- Carpolithus1 site
- Chrysobalanus1 site
- Cissus1 site
- Cladophlebis1 site
- Dammarites1 site
- Dewalquea1 site
- Dicotylophyllum1 site
- Dillenites1 site
- Dillenites microdentatus1 site
- Dillenites texensis1 site
- Dryophyllum1 site
- Euonymus1 site
- Ficus1 site
- Ficus mississippiensis1 site
- Geonomites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cupanites, 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
2 references- A new paratropical angiosperm florule in the Eocene Rockdale Formation of Bastrop County, Texas1
- Flora of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island, British Columbia1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cupanites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cupanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cupanites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSapindaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schimper 1874