Gavia concinna
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GaviaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 210 ka.
10 occurrences of Gavia concinna on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene40%
- Pliocene40%
- Pleistocene20%
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
6 formations
- Peace River Formation · Hawthorn Group4
- Pismo Formation1
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Etchegoin Formation1
- San Diego Formation1
- Bermont Formation1
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The named rock units Gavia concinna 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.
Gavia concinna and its relatives
MioceneWhere Gavia concinna and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
620 taxa- Balaenopteridae3 sites
- Equus3 sites
- Larus3 sites
- Phalacrocorax wetmorei3 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos2 sites
- Archosargus probatocephalus2 sites
- Aythya affinis2 sites
- Bucephala albeola2 sites
- Buteo2 sites
- Canis edwardii2 sites
- Carcharhinus leucas2 sites
- Carcharhinus obscurus2 sites
- Carcharhinus plumbeus2 sites
- Carcharias taurus2 sites
- Carcharodon carcharias2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Cerorhinca2 sites
- Chilomycterus schoepfi2 sites
- Ciconia maltha2 sites
- Cynoscion2 sites
- Delphinidae2 sites
- Eudocimus leiseyi2 sites
- Fulica americana2 sites
- Galeocerdo cuvier2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Gavia concinna, 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
8 references- The avifauna of the Bone Valley Formation3
- Miocene and Pliocene birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina1
- Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula1
- An early Irvingtonian avifauna from Leisey Shell Pit, Florida1
- Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean1
- A review of the Pliocene loons1
- Fossil birds from the Tertiary deposits of Florida1
- Fossil Bird Remains from Tertiary Deposits in the United States1
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 content1
Picture of Gavia concinna
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gavia concinna was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGavia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wetmore 1940