Lespedeza

Lespedeza is a genus of some 45 species of flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae), commonly known as bush clovers or Japanese clovers (hagi). The genus is native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of eastern North America, eastern and southern Asia and Australasia.

Lespedeza

VoDeTan2 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
bush cloverPBDB
Sits inside
FabaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 14 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Lespedeza 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

14 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

7 formations

Itahana — 36.25°N, 139.00°EItahana — 36.50°N, 139.00°EYagii — 36.08°N, 139.17°EOgawa — 36.42°N, 138.08°ESeto Porcelain Clay — 35.00°N, 137.00°EXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°EFangjia — 30.92°N, 111.83°ESayama — 35.78°N, 139.38°E

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The named rock units Lespedeza has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lespedeza and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lespedeza and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Lespedeza, 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

4 references

Each of the 14 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 Lespedeza

Credit
VoDeTan2
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lespedeza 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 itFabaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Michaux 1803