Parthenocissus
Parthenocissus, is a genus of tendril climbing plants in the grape family, Vitaceae. It contains about 12 species native to the Himalaya, eastern Asia and North America. Several are grown for ornamental use, notably P. henryana, P. quinquefolia and P. tricuspidata.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VitaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
30 occurrences of Parthenocissus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
30 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
8 formations
- Itahana Formation · Tomioka Group1
- Motojuku Formation1
- London Clay Formation1
- Bovey Tracey Lignite Formation1
- Headon Beds Formation1
- Tienen Formation1
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The named rock units Parthenocissus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parthenocissus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parthenocissus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
377 taxa- Fagus4 sites
- Abies3 sites
- Alnus3 sites
- Meliosma3 sites
- Picea3 sites
- Vitis3 sites
- Ampelopsis2 sites
- Angiospermae2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Brasenia ovula2 sites
- Caricoidea2 sites
- Carpinus2 sites
- Carpinus boveyanus2 sites
- Carpolithus2 sites
- Castanea2 sites
- Cedrela2 sites
- Corylus2 sites
- Decodon2 sites
- Eomastixia rugosa2 sites
- Eucommia2 sites
- Euodia2 sites
- Hydrangea2 sites
- Iodes2 sites
- Juglans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Parthenocissus, 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
16 references- Tretichnye Flory Zapadnoi Sibiri10
- Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie4
- Fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon2
- Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan2
- Fossil fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Messel biota, Germany1
- Fruits and seeds from the Tienen Formation at Dormaal, Palaeoecene-Eocene transition in eastern Belgium1
- Die oberoligozanen Floren am Nordrand der Sachsischen Lausitz1
- Re-Evaluation of the age of the Brandon lignite (Vermont, USA) based on plant megafossils1
- Raschleneniye oligotsen-nizhnemiotsenovykh tolshch vostochnoy Kamchatki (zaliv Korfa). Subdivision of Oligocene-lower Miocene layers of eastern Kamchatka, Gulf of Korfa1
- Fossil plants of the Eocene Clarno Nut Beds1
- The Miocene Trapper Creek Flora of Southern Idaho1
- Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains1
Each of the 30 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. 4 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 Parthenocissus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- No machine-readable author provided. Grezty~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parthenocissus 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
- 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. Planchon 1887