Burhinidae

Burhinidae

Andrew Mercer (www.baldwhiteguy.co.nz) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
stone-curlewPBDB
Sits inside
CharadriiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 18 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences45.9 Mya11.7 ka52 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Burhinidae 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

18 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

4 formations

Maboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°ENamba — 31.17°S, 140.23°ESheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°W

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The named rock units Burhinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Burhinidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Burhinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

674 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Burhinidae, 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

17 references

Each of the 18 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. 5 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 Burhinidae

Credit
Andrew Mercer (www.baldwhiteguy.co.nz)
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Burhinidae 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itCharadriiformes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mathews 1912