Gallinuloides

Gerald Mayr and Ilka Weidig · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- GallinuloididaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Galliformes
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Galliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gallinuloides on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Gallinuloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gallinuloides and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gallinuloides and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Amia fragosa1 site
- Amia uintaensis1 site
- Atractosteus simplex1 site
- Bahndwivici ammoskius1 site
- Bechleja rostrata1 site
- Chascacocolius oscitans1 site
- Chelydridae1 site
- Coraciiformes1 site
- Crossopholis magnicaudatus1 site
- Cyclurus gurleyi1 site
- Diplomystus dentatus1 site
- Echmatemys1 site
- Egyptemys eocaenus1 site
- Eocypselus vincenti1 site
- Eoglaucidium1 site
- Eohiodon falcatus1 site
- Eozygodactylus americanus1 site
- Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus1 site
- Goniobasis1 site
- Halcyornithidae1 site
- Heliobatis radians1 site
- Knightia eocaena1 site
- Lambdotherium1 site
- Lepisosteus bemisi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gallinuloides, 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
3 references- New Birds from the Lower Eocene Green River Formation, North America1
- Bird evolution in the Eocene: climate change in Europe and a Danish fossil fauna1
- Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna1
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. 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 Gallinuloides
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Gerald Mayr and Ilka Weidig
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gallinuloides 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGallinuloididae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eastman 1900