Graculavus velox
No picture of Graculavus velox was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Graculavus velox, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GraculavusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Graculavus velox on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous80%
- Paleocene21%
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
1 formation
- Hornerstown Formation · Rancocas Group2
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The named rock units Graculavus velox has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Graculavus velox and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Graculavus velox and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Adocus beatus2 sites
- Euclastes wielandi2 sites
- Mosasaurus hoffmannii2 sites
- Taphrosphys sulcatus2 sites
- Telmatornis priscus2 sites
- Thoracosaurus neocesariensis2 sites
- Acipenser albertensis1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Adocus1 site
- Aetomylaeus striatus1 site
- Agomphus pectoralis1 site
- Anchura abrupta1 site
- Atractosteus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Bananogmius1 site
- Batomorphii1 site
- Borealosuchus threeensis1 site
- Bothremys1 site
- Bottosaurus harlani1 site
- Carcharias cuspidatus1 site
- Crassatella vadosa1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cucullaea vulgaris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Graculavus velox, 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
2 references- The Cretaceous birds of New Jersey1
- Preliminary description of Hesperornis regalis, with notices of four other new species of Cretaceous birds1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Graculavus velox was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Graculavus velox, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Graculavus velox 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.
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What may have been alongside itGraculavus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1872)