Amaurornis cinerea
Ariefrahman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- white-browed crakePBDB
- Sits inside
- AmaurornisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Amaurornis cinerea on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
8 occurrences- Pleistocene11%
- Holocene89%
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.
Amaurornis cinerea and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Amaurornis cinerea and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Alopecoenas xanthonurus7 sites
- Aplonis opaca7 sites
- Anous ceruleus6 sites
- Passeriformes6 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla6 sites
- Gallirallus5 sites
- Gygis alba candida5 sites
- Pteropus5 sites
- Rallidae5 sites
- Anous stolidus4 sites
- Megapodius laperouse4 sites
- Porzana4 sites
- Squamata4 sites
- Anous minutus3 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata3 sites
- Serpentes3 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus3 sites
- Acrocephalus luscinius2 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis2 sites
- Gallus gallus2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
- Homo sapiens2 sites
- Myzomela rubratra2 sites
- Phaethon lepturus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Amaurornis cinerea, 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- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands4
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands2
- Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: extinctions on a large Melanesian island1
- Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia1
Each of the 8 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 Amaurornis cinerea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ariefrahman
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amaurornis cinerea 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAmaurornis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vieillot 1819)