Grus melitensis
No picture of Grus melitensis 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 Grus melitensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 645 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Grus melitensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene100%
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.
Grus melitensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Grus melitensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Anatidae2 sites
- Passeriformes2 sites
- Anas1 site
- Anas platyrhynchos1 site
- Anser1 site
- Anser albifrons1 site
- Anser anser1 site
- Aythya nyroca1 site
- Charadriiformes1 site
- Columba palumbus1 site
- Corvidae1 site
- Cygnus cygnus1 site
- Cygnus equitum1 site
- Fulica atra1 site
- Grus grus1 site
- Melanocorypha calandra1 site
- Numenius1 site
- Otis tarda1 site
- Picus canus1 site
- Pluvialis apricaria1 site
- Scolopax rusticola1 site
- Sterninae1 site
- Streptopelia turtur1 site
- Tachybaptus ruficollis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Grus melitensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Grus melitensis 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 Grus melitensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Grus melitensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGrus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lydekker 1890