Anserinae

The Anserinae are a subfamily in the waterfowl family Anatidae and includes the swan and geese. Under alternative systematical concepts, it is split into two subfamilies. The Anserinae contains geese and ducks, while the Cygninae contains the swans.

Anserinae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 367 occurrencesMiocene — about 30 of 367 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 367 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 163 of 367 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 14 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 291 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

367 occurrences of Anserinae 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

367 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

35 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WTemblor — 36.54°N, 120.55°WTemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WBannockburn — 44.91°S, 169.86°EBannockburn — 44.88°S, 169.75°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°ESan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WHagerman — 42.81°N, 114.95°WHagerman — 42.79°N, 114.95°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WHaraichi — 36.32°N, 138.88°EAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WTurlock Lake — 37.06°N, 120.20°WManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WAllingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°EGebel Silsila-YCS — 24.50°N, 33.00°EOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°EAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WKempsville — 36.79°N, 76.17°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.27°EHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°EHaughton — 75.41°N, 89.43°W

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The named rock units Anserinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 304 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anserinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Anserinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,015 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 220 sites for Anserinae, 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

136 references

Each of the 367 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. 124 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 Anserinae

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(c) John G. Phillips, some rights reserved (CC BY)
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CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Anserinae 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.

The description on this site

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

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