Actitis

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.

Sits inside

ScolopacidaePBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria

Life habit

ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda

Environment

marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes

• Pliocene6%
• Pleistocene84%
• Holocene10%

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.

Where Actitis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Podilymbus podiceps5 sites
• Anas crecca4 sites
• Anas platyrhynchos4 sites
• Asio flammeus4 sites
• Branta canadensis4 sites
• Falco sparverius4 sites
• Aenocyon dirus3 sites
• Anas acuta3 sites
• Athene cunicularia3 sites
• Botaurus lentiginosus3 sites
• Bubo virginianus3 sites
• Charadrius vociferus3 sites
• Equus3 sites
• Falco peregrinus3 sites
• Fulica americana3 sites
• Gallinago gallinago3 sites
• Hemiauchenia macrocephala3 sites
• Odocoileus virginianus3 sites
• Podiceps nigricollis3 sites
• Porzana carolina3 sites
• Rallus limicola3 sites
• Scolopacidae3 sites
• Spatula clypeata3 sites
• Spatula discors3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Actitis, 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.

• Late Pleistocene-Holocene non-passerine avifauna of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)Meijer et al., 2013 · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · journal article2
• Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave DepositsCollins et al., 2018 · Western North American Naturalist · journal article1
• Late Pleistocene birds from Binagada (Azerbaijan) in collection of the National Museum of Natural History (Kyiv, Ukraine)Gorobets and Yanenko, 2018 · Vestnik Zoologii · journal article1
• Tigriornis leucolophaInternational, 2018 · The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species · guidebook1
• Two new late Blancan avifaunas from Florida and the extinction of wetland birds in the Plio-PleistoceneEmslie, 1992 · Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series · journal article1
• The Camp Cady Local Fauna: Paleoenvironment of the Lake Manix BasinJefferson, 1987 · San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly · journal article1
• The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern PeruCampbell, 1979 · Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contribution · serial monograph1
• The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of VirginiaGuilday et al., 1977 · Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History · journal article1
• A Pleistocene avifauna from Haile, FloridaLigon, 1966 · Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences · serial monograph1

Each of the 10 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.

What may have been alongside itScolopacidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Illiger 1811