Gruiformes

The Gruiformes are an order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird families, with a widespread geographical diversity. Gruiform means 'crane form'.

Gruiformes

Олексій Карпенко · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
CharadriimorphaePBDB
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 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 1040 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 1040 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 1040 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 56 of 1040 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 30 of 1040 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 133 of 1040 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 34 of 1040 occurrencesPleistocene — about 363 of 1040 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 10 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 10 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 11 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 9 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 10 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 31 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 48 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 18 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 17 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 38 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 790 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

1,040 occurrences of Gruiformes on record. 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

1,040 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.

Found in

101 formations

Santa Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 47.50°S, 71.88°WSanta Cruz — 51.58°S, 69.23°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 50.21°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 47.92°S, 72.14°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.97°WSanta Cruz — 50.43°S, 69.08°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WLaguna de Tagua Tagua — 34.50°S, 71.17°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WItuzaingo — 31.68°S, 60.42°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 43.42°N, 103.05°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.04°N, 110.23°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 44.35°S, 69.78°WSarmiento — 46.68°S, 68.35°WSarmiento — 45.33°S, 68.00°WHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°EMonte Hermoso — 38.00°S, 61.00°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WChadron — 42.78°N, 103.57°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 40.82°N, 103.73°WChadron — 43.64°N, 102.72°WBannockburn — 44.91°S, 169.86°EBannockburn — 44.89°S, 169.84°EOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WHagerman — 42.79°N, 114.95°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.73°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WEpecuén — 37.18°S, 62.73°WEpecuén — 37.18°S, 62.77°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WBorgloon — 50.82°N, 4.82°EMonte Leon — 50.23°S, 68.92°W

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The named rock units Gruiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 765 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

4,598 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 604 sites for Gruiformes, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

330 references

Each of the 1,040 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. 318 further references are not listed. 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 Gruiformes

Credit
Олексій Карпенко
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bonaparte 1854)