Harpullia

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- tulipwoodPBDB
- Sits inside
- SapindaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Harpullia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
- Lower Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Harpullia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Harpullia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Harpullia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Dipterocarpus siwalicus2 sites
- Mallotus kalimpongensis2 sites
- Millettia koilabasensis2 sites
- Mitrephora siwalika2 sites
- Toona siwalica2 sites
- Actinodaphne palaeoangustifolia1 site
- Albizia microfolia1 site
- Albizia siwalica1 site
- Ancistrocladus suraikholaensis1 site
- Anisophyllea siwalica1 site
- Annona miocenica1 site
- Anthocephalus siwalica1 site
- Artocarpus nepalensis1 site
- Atalantia siwalica1 site
- Baccaurea miocenica1 site
- Bambusa siwalika1 site
- Batagurinae1 site
- Bauhinia nepalensis1 site
- Bauhinia purniyagiriensis1 site
- Bouea koilabasensis1 site
- Bouea premacrophylla1 site
- Breynia prerhamnoides1 site
- Bridelia hanumanchattiensis1 site
- Bridelia mioretusa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Harpullia, 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
3 references- Fossil Leaf Impressions from Siwalik Bed of Bhutan1
- Middle Miocene flora from Siwalik foreland basin of Uttarakhand, India and its phytogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications1
- Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications1
Each of the 3 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 Harpullia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- 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 Harpullia 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.
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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roxburgh 1824