Calcarius

Uncredited · 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- Sits inside
- CalcariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At least 81 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Calcarius 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Calcarius and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Calcarius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Eremophila alpestris2 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus1 site
- Alauda arvensis1 site
- Alle alle1 site
- Anas1 site
- Anas crecca1 site
- Anguis fragilis1 site
- Anser1 site
- Anthus pratensis1 site
- Anthus trivialis1 site
- Aquila chrysaetos1 site
- Asio1 site
- Aythya americana1 site
- Bubo scandiacus1 site
- Bubo virginianus1 site
- Bufo bufo1 site
- Bufo calamita1 site
- Buteo1 site
- Canis latrans1 site
- Centrocercus urophasianus1 site
- Cepphus grylle1 site
- Chondestes grammacus1 site
- Colaptes auratus1 site
- Columba oenas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Calcarius, 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- The early and middle Pleistocene avifauna from Porcupine Cave3
- A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology)1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content3

Picture of Calcarius
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Calcarius lapponicus · nhmuk:A/2007.4.1
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCalcariidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bechstein 1802