Anatinae

Anatinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
duckPBDB
Sits inside
AnatidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
volantPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 860 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 43 of 860 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 860 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 466 of 860 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 27 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 46 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 717 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

860 occurrences of Anatinae 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

860 occurrences

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

50 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°ETamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WGebel Silsila-YCS — 24.50°N, 33.00°EHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°ESan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ECromer Forest Bed — 51.64°N, 0.80°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.27°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°EManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WTemblor — 35.47°N, 118.91°WCaloosahatchee — 27.00°N, 82.00°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WSajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°EHagerman — 42.81°N, 114.95°WHagerman — 42.79°N, 114.95°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCalvert — 38.50°N, 76.51°WOshin — 43.47°N, 100.45°EOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.77°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°W"Topanga" — 33.66°N, 117.63°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°E

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The named rock units Anatinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 720 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anatinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Anatinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 363 sites for Anatinae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

230 references

Each of the 860 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. 218 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 Anatinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Anatinae 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vigors 1825