Eudromia

Eudromia is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two crested members of this South American family.

Eudromia

Dominic Sherony · CC BY-SA 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
Sits inside
TinamidaePBDB
Diet
granivorePBDB, for Tinamidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Tinamidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Tinamidae

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences567 ka–283 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka8.5 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Eudromia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 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

4 formations

Monte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WCerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°W

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The named rock units Eudromia 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.

Eudromia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Eudromia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

230 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eudromia, 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

7 references

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 content3

Picture of Eudromia

Credit
Dominic Sherony
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Eudromia elegans · TxVP:M:16654

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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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What may have been alongside itTinamidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy 1832