Cnemiornis calcitrans
James Hector (1834-1907) · Public Domain · 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
- South Island goosePBDB
- Sits inside
- CnemiornisPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Anseriformes
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Anseriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Cnemiornis calcitrans on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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 occurrences- Pleistocene29%
- Holocene71%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cnemiornis calcitrans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cnemiornis calcitrans and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cnemiornis calcitrans and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Emeus crassus8 sites
- Pachyornis elephantopus8 sites
- Apteryx australis6 sites
- Chenonetta finschi6 sites
- Gallirallus australis6 sites
- Dinornis giganteus5 sites
- Anas chlorotis4 sites
- Aptornis defossor4 sites
- Callaeas cinereus4 sites
- Corvus moriorum4 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae4 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides4 sites
- Fulica prisca4 sites
- Harpagornis moorei4 sites
- Nestor meridionalis4 sites
- Dinornis struthoides3 sites
- Porphyrio hochstetteri3 sites
- Strigops habroptila3 sites
- Anatidae2 sites
- Apteryx owenii2 sites
- Ardenna grisea2 sites
- Circus eylesi2 sites
- Coenocorypha iredalei2 sites
- Cyanoramphus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cnemiornis calcitrans, 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- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand7
- Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand3
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. 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 Cnemiornis calcitrans
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- James Hector (1834-1907)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cnemiornis calcitrans 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCnemiornis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1865