Fulica atra

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- Also called
- common 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
- 835 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Fulica atra 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
8 occurrences- Pleistocene88%
- Holocene13%
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.
Fulica atra and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Fulica atra and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Anas platyrhynchos4 sites
- Anas crecca3 sites
- Aythya nyroca3 sites
- Corvidae3 sites
- Emys orbicularis3 sites
- Mareca strepera3 sites
- Spatula clypeata3 sites
- Anas2 sites
- Anatidae2 sites
- Anser albifrons2 sites
- Arvicola2 sites
- Aythya fuligula2 sites
- Bison2 sites
- Canis2 sites
- Castor fiber2 sites
- Cervus elaphus2 sites
- Crocidura2 sites
- Dama2 sites
- Gallinula chloropus2 sites
- Hippopotamus antiquus2 sites
- Mauremys rivulata2 sites
- Microtus2 sites
- Numenius2 sites
- Palaeoloxodon antiquus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Fulica atra, 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- The ornithological remains from Marathousa 1 (Middle Pleistocene; Megalopolis Basin, Greece)2
- A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology)2
- Pleistocene vertebrates from the Kyparíssia lignite mine, Megalopolis Basin, S. Greece: Testudines, Aves, Suiformes1
- Avian fossil assemblages at the onset of the LGM in the eastern Alps: A palaecological contribution from the Rio Secco Cave (Italy)1
- Exploitation of a seasonal resource: bird hunting during the late Natufian at Shubayqa 11
- The fossil bird associations from the early Middle Pleistocene of the Ragusa province (SE Sicily, Italy)1
Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Fulica atra
- 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- xyskhuanghao
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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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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. Linnaeus 1758