Charadrii

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
- 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 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.
10 occurrences of Charadrii on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Bannockburn Formation · Manuherikia Group4
- Alachua Formation1
- Aral Formation1
- Etadunna Formation1
- Indusial Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Charadrii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Charadrii and its relatives
MioceneWhere Charadrii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Neilus sansomae4 sites
- Anserinae2 sites
- Elaphe2 sites
- Passeriformes2 sites
- Abelmoschomys simpsoni1 site
- Accipitridae1 site
- Aegotheles1 site
- Aeluroidea1 site
- Aepycamelus major1 site
- Alligator1 site
- Amia calva1 site
- Amphechinus1 site
- Amphechinus minimus1 site
- Amphitragulus1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Anatinae1 site
- Anhinga grandis1 site
- Ansomys crucifer1 site
- Antilocaprinae1 site
- Apalone amorense1 site
- Aphelops malacorhinus1 site
- Aptornis proasciarostratus1 site
- Aramidae1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Charadrii, 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
6 references- Sheathbill-like birds (Charadriiformes: Chionoidea) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Australasia5
- A new species of the late Miocene charadriiform bird (Aves: Charadriiformes), with a summary of all Paleogene and Miocene Charadrii remains1
- Tigriornis leucolopha1
- A Haematopus-like skull and other remains of Charadrii (Aves, Charadriiformes) from the Early Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France)1
- The Stratigraphy and Small Mammals from the Aral Formation, the Altynshokysu Locality, Northern Aral Area1
- Geology and paleontology of the Love Bone Bed from the Late Miocene of Florida1
Each of the 10 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. 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 Charadrii
- 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
No 3D scan of Charadrii 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCharadriiformes through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huxley 1867