Dinornithidae
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
- DinornithiformesPBDB
- 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 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 0 Mya.
22 occurrences of Dinornithidae on record. 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
22 occurrences- Miocene5%
- Pleistocene17%
- Holocene79%
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
2 formations
- Hillgrove Formation1
- Dunstan Formation · Manuherikia Group1
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The named rock units Dinornithidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Pachyornis elephantopus9 sites
- Emeus crassus8 sites
- Gallirallus australis8 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides7 sites
- Strigops habroptila7 sites
- Aptornis defossor6 sites
- Chenonetta finschi6 sites
- Cnemiornis calcitrans6 sites
- Dinornis giganteus6 sites
- Dinornis struthoides6 sites
- Apteryx australis5 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica5 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae5 sites
- Cyanoramphus5 sites
- Fulica prisca5 sites
- Harpagornis moorei5 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae5 sites
- Petroica australis5 sites
- Anas chlorotis4 sites
- Anomalopteryx didiformis4 sites
- Apteryx4 sites
- Callaeas cinereus4 sites
- Corvus moriorum4 sites
- Dinornithiformes4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Dinornithidae, 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- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand14
- Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in Takaka Valley and on Takaka Hill, northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand3
- Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand2
- Late Quaternary terrestrial vertebrate coprolites from New Zealand1
- Miocene waterfowl and other birds from central Otago, New Zealand1
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 22 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 Dinornithidae
- 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 Dinornithidae 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.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1853