Grus conferta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrusPBDB
- 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 most 3.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 9.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Grus conferta 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Grus conferta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Grus conferta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Grus conferta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aelurodon taxoides1 site
- Aepycamelus1 site
- Alilepus hibbardi1 site
- Barbourofelis loveorum1 site
- Borophagus littoralis1 site
- Dinohippus leardi1 site
- Gomphotherium obscurum1 site
- Hipparion forcei1 site
- Leptarctus wortmani1 site
- Leptocyon vafer1 site
- Merycodus1 site
- Mustelinae1 site
- Nimravides thinobates1 site
- Otospermophilus1 site
- Pliauchenia magnifontis1 site
- Procamelus grandis1 site
- Procyonidae1 site
- Prodipoides lecontei1 site
- Ustatochoerus major1 site
- Woodburnehyus grenaderae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Grus conferta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Grus conferta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Grus conferta 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 itGrus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Sibley 1942