Hypserpa
Hypserpa is a genus of woody climbing plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae. Its native range is tropical and subtropical Asia, northeastern Australia, and the western Pacific.
Alston, A. H. G.; Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Trimen, Henry · Public Domain · 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- Sits inside
- MenispermaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
18 occurrences of Hypserpa on record. 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
18 occurrences- Eocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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 the same rock
225 taxa- Macaranga13 sites
- Dicotyledoneae12 sites
- Carya9 sites
- Cladrastis9 sites
- Cyathea8 sites
- Dicotylophyllum8 sites
- Dryophyllum8 sites
- Monocotyledoneae8 sites
- Pugetia longifolia8 sites
- Viburnum8 sites
- Pterocarya7 sites
- Acacia6 sites
- Agathis6 sites
- Araliaceae6 sites
- Araucaria6 sites
- Archontophoenix6 sites
- Argyrodendron6 sites
- Callitris6 sites
- Casuarinaceae6 sites
- Chaetoptelea6 sites
- Chenopodiaceae6 sites
- Choriceras6 sites
- Cissus6 sites
- Cunoniaceae6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Hypserpa, 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- Paleoecological and Floristic Heterogeneity in the Plant-Fossil Record - An Analysis Based on the Eocene of Washington12
- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia6
Each of the 18 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 Hypserpa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Alston, A. H. G.; Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Trimen, Henry
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hypserpa 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Hypserpa”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMenispermaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miers 1851