Anas gracilis
The grey teal is a dabbling duck found in open wetlands in Australia and New Zealand.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- gray tealPBDB
- Sits inside
- AnasPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Anatinae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Anatinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Anatinae
- Mass
- 23 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Anas gracilis 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
4 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Anas gracilis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Anas gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Accipiter efficax2 sites
- Anas chlorotis2 sites
- Anas superciliosa2 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Apteryx2 sites
- Apteryx australis2 sites
- Ardenna grisea2 sites
- Aythya novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Biziura delautouri2 sites
- Caloenas canacorum2 sites
- Circus eylesi2 sites
- Corvus moriorum2 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae2 sites
- Cyanoramphus2 sites
- Cygnus sumnerensis2 sites
- Emeidae2 sites
- Emeus crassus2 sites
- Eudyptes pachyrhynchus2 sites
- Eudyptula minor2 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides2 sites
- Fulica prisca2 sites
- Gallirallus australis2 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus2 sites
- Haematopus unicolor2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Anas gracilis, 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
3 references- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand2
- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves1
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia1
Each of the 4 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 Anas gracilis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- OKNZ
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anas gracilis 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Grey teal”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnas through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Buller 1869