Geronticus eremita

The northern bald ibis, hermit ibis, or Waldrapp is a migratory Old World ibis found in open areas such as grasslands, rocky mountains, and semi-deserts, often close to running water. This 70–80 cm (28–31 in) glossy black ibis, which, unlike many members of the ibis family, is non-wading, has an unfeathered red face and head, and a long, curved red bill. It breeds colonially on coastal or mountain cliff ledges, where it typically lays two to three eggs in a stick nest, and feeds on lizards, insects, and other small animals.

Geronticus eremita

Len Worthington · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
northern bald ibisPBDB
Sits inside
GeronticusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Threskiornithidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Threskiornithidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Threskiornithidae
Mass
68 gWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 762 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pleistocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 4 occurrences1.8–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–997 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences997 ka–920 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences920 ka–843 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences843 ka–767 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences767 ka–690 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences690 ka–613 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences613 ka–537 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537 ka–460 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460 ka–383 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383 ka–307 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 ka–230 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230 ka–153 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153 ka–77 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence774 ka11.7 ka2.3 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Geronticus eremita 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.

Geronticus eremita and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Geronticus eremita and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Geronticus eremita, 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. 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 Geronticus eremita

Credit
Len Worthington
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Geronticus eremita 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.

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 itGeronticus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)