Chloephaga rubidiceps
The ruddy-headed goose is a species of waterfowl in tribe Tadornini of subfamily Anserinae. It is found in Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland Islands.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- ruddy-headed goosePBDB
- Sits inside
- ChloephagaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Anseriformes
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Anseriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 1.35 kgWikidata
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 Chloephaga rubidiceps 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.
Chloephaga rubidiceps and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Chloephaga rubidiceps and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Anas flavirostris1 site
- Anthus correndera1 site
- Asio flammeus1 site
- Chloephaga hybrida1 site
- Chloephaga picta1 site
- Falco femoralis1 site
- Gallinago paraguaiae magellanica1 site
- Geranoaetus polyosoma1 site
- Leucophaeus scoresbii1 site
- Lophonetta specularioides1 site
- Melanodera melanodera1 site
- Oceanites oceanicus1 site
- Pachyptila1 site
- Pelecanoides urinatrix1 site
- Phalcoboenus australis1 site
- Phalcoboenus napieri1 site
- Turdus falcklandii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chloephaga rubidiceps, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 content1
Picture of Chloephaga rubidiceps
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chloephaga rubidiceps was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itChloephaga through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sclater 1861