Actitis macularius
The spotted sandpiper is a small shorebird. Together with its sister species the common sandpiper, it makes up the genus Actitis. They replace each other geographically; stray birds may settle down with breeders of the other species and hybridize.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- spotted sandpiperPBDB
- Sits inside
- ActitisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
Time the record covers
At least 1.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Actitis macularius on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene87%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Actitis macularius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Actitis macularius and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Actitis macularius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
494 taxa- Podilymbus podiceps5 sites
- Asio flammeus4 sites
- Falco sparverius4 sites
- Anas crecca3 sites
- Athene cunicularia3 sites
- Botaurus lentiginosus3 sites
- Branta canadensis3 sites
- Charadrius vociferus3 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus3 sites
- Porzana carolina3 sites
- Rallus limicola3 sites
- Spatula clypeata3 sites
- Spatula discors3 sites
- Aenocyon dirus2 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus2 sites
- Anas acuta2 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos2 sites
- Arenaria interpres2 sites
- Aythya collaris2 sites
- Bombycilla cedrorum2 sites
- Bubo virginianus2 sites
- Bucephala albeola2 sites
- Buteo platypterus2 sites
- Carabidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Actitis macularius, 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
5 references- Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits1
- Two new late Blancan avifaunas from Florida and the extinction of wetland birds in the Plio-Pleistocene1
- The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru1
- The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia1
- A Pleistocene avifauna from Haile, Florida1
Each of the 5 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 content2
Picture of Actitis macularius
- Source
- Wikipedia/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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
MorphoSource 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 itActitis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)