Charadriidae

The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings. The family contains 69 species that are divided into 12 genera.

Charadriidae

Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA · CC BY 2.0 · 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
lapwingPBDB
Sits inside
CharadrioideaPBDB
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 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 115 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 115 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 115 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 115 occurrencesPleistocene — about 59 of 115 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 108 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

115 occurrences of Charadriidae 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

115 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

9 formations

Hillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°EDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WHuadian — 43.00°N, 126.67°ESables d'Anvers — 51.13°N, 4.29°EWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WSan Diego — 32.71°N, 117.12°WTirari — 28.77°S, 138.42°EIndusial Limestone — 46.26°N, 3.51°E

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The named rock units Charadriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 105 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Charadriidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Charadriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,902 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Charadriidae, 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

56 references

Each of the 115 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. 44 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 content2

Picture of Charadriidae

Credit
Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
bcbirds
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vigors 1825