Eudromia elegans

The elegant crested tinamou or martineta tinamou is a medium-sized tinamou that can be found in southern Chile and Argentina in Shrubland. The bird has an omnivorous diet. This species is terrestrial due to their poor flying ability.

Eudromia elegans

self, User:Stavenn · CC BY 2.5 · 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
Elegant crested tinamouPBDB
Sits inside
EudromiaPBDB
Diet
granivorePBDB, for Tinamidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Tinamidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Tinamidae

Time the record covers

At most 1.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5 Mya and 3.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPliocene5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5 Mya3.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Eudromia elegans on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

1 formation

Monte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Eudromia elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eudromia elegans and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Eudromia elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eudromia elegans, 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

Each of the 3 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 content3

Picture of Eudromia elegans

Credit
self, User:Stavenn
Licence
CC BY 2.5
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
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEudromia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

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