Fulica armillata

The red-gartered coot is a species of bird in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Fulica armillata

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
red-gartered cootPBDB
Sits inside
FulicaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Mass
1.04 kgWikidata

Time the record covers

At most 400 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 400 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 4 occurrences420 ka–390 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390 ka–360 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360 ka–330 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330 ka–300 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300 ka–270 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270 ka–240 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240 ka–210 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210 ka–180 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180 ka–150 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150 ka–120 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120 ka–90 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences90 ka–60 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60 ka–30 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence900 ka0 Mya

4 occurrences of Fulica armillata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

4 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

2 formations

Laguna de Tagua Tagua — 34.50°S, 71.17°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°W

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The named rock units Fulica armillata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fulica armillata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Fulica armillata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fulica armillata, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 content2

Picture of Fulica armillata

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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What may have been alongside itFulica through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vieillot 1817