Andalgalornis

Andalgalornis is a genus of flightless predatory birds of the extinct family Phorusrhacidae that lived in Argentina. The type and only species is A. steulleti.

Andalgalornis

Federico J. Degrange, Claudia P. Tambussi, Karen Moreno, Lawrence M. Witmer, Stephen Wroe · CC BY 2.5 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhorusrhacidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae

Time the record covers

At most 3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8 Mya and 5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPliocene8.1–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5 Mya4.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Andalgalornis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

2 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

1 formation

Ituzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WItuzaingo — 31.68°S, 60.42°W

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The named rock units Andalgalornis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Andalgalornis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Andalgalornis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Andalgalornis, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Andalgalornis

Credit
Federico J. Degrange, Claudia P. Tambussi, Karen Moreno, Lawrence M. Witmer, Stephen Wroe
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Andalgalornis 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

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 itPhorusrhacidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Patterson and Kraglievich 1960