Anthochaera chrysoptera
The little wattlebird, also known as the brush wattlebird, is a passerine bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is found in coastal and sub-coastal south-eastern Australia.
JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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- Also called
- little wattlebirdPBDB
- Sits inside
- AnthochaeraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 60 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anthochaera chrysoptera 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
1 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.
Anthochaera chrysoptera and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Anthochaera chrysoptera and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Accipiter fasciatus1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Anthochaera carunculata1 site
- Aves1 site
- Cacatua tenuirostris1 site
- Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae1 site
- Cinclosoma punctatum1 site
- Corvus1 site
- Coturnix1 site
- Cracticidae1 site
- Dasyornis brachypterus1 site
- Dasyornis broadbenti1 site
- Eolophus roseicapilla1 site
- Eudyptula minor1 site
- Falco cenchroides1 site
- Gallirallus philippensis1 site
- Glossopsitta concinna1 site
- Hirundinidae1 site
- Neophema1 site
- Pachyptila1 site
- Passeriformes1 site
- Phalacrocorax1 site
- Phaps chalcoptera1 site
- Phaps elegans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anthochaera chrysoptera, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Anthochaera chrysoptera
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Anthochaera chrysoptera chrysoptera · YPM:VZ:YPM ORN 124284
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
- 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 itAnthochaera through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Latham 1802)