Grus pagei

Grus pagei is an extinct crane reported from the Upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. It is one of three cranes present at Rancho La Brea, the others being the still-living whooping crane and the still-living sandhill crane. It is the smallest of the three cranes, and it had a relatively longer, more slender skull than the living cranes. At least 11 individuals are represented by 42 fossil bones. Described by Kenneth E. Campbell Jr. in 1995, it was named after the philanthropist responsible for the museum at the tar pits, George C. Page.

No picture of Grus pagei 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 pagei, 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 196 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 210 ka and 14 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 8 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences213 ka–189 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences189 ka–166 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences166 ka–142 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences142 ka–118 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences118 ka–95 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences95 ka–71 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences71 ka–47 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences47 ka–24 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences24 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences710 ka0 Mya

8 occurrences of Grus pagei 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

8 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.

Grus pagei and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Grus pagei and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Grus pagei, 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 reference

Each of the 8 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 Grus pagei 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 pagei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Grus pagei 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.

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 itGrus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campbell 1995