Lagopus lagopus

Yathin S Krishnappa · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.

Also called

willow ptarmiganPBDB

Sits inside

LagopusPBDB

Diet

granivorePBDB, for Phasianidae

Life habit

volantPBDB, for Phasianidae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Phasianidae

Mass

720 gWikidata

• Pleistocene46%
• Holocene54%

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.

Where Lagopus lagopus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene. Draw the map

• Anatidae9 sites
• Lagopus muta9 sites
• Lyrurus tetrix8 sites
• Anas crecca7 sites
• Corvus corax7 sites
• Corvus monedula6 sites
• Perdix perdix6 sites
• Turdus pilaris6 sites
• Anas platyrhynchos5 sites
• Tetrao urogallus5 sites
• Turdus merula5 sites
• Turdus philomelos5 sites
• Garrulus glandarius4 sites
• Gavia4 sites
• Gavia arctica4 sites
• Mareca penelope4 sites
• Rangifer tarandus4 sites
• Tetraonidae4 sites
• Anas3 sites
• Corvus corone3 sites
• Gavia stellata3 sites
• Hirundo rustica3 sites
• Perisoreus infaustus3 sites
• Rana temporaria3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Lagopus lagopus, 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.

• Birds in Finnish prehistoryMannermaa, 2003 · Fennoscandia Archaeologica · journal article9
• A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology)Seward et al., 2006 · Historical Biology · journal article6
• Birds of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene from the Palaeolithic Djuktai cave site of Yakutia, eastern SiberiaZelenkov et al., 2008 · Oryctos · journal article2
• Declining foraging returns from an inexhaustible resource? Abundance indices and beluga whaling in the western Canadian ArcticBetts and Friesen, 2006 · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology · journal article1
• The birds of the late Quaternary of the Altai MtsBurchak-Abramovich and Burchak, 1998 · Acta Zoologica Cracoviensis · journal article1
• Central Inuit Household Economies: Zooarchaeology, Environmental, and Historical Evidence from Outer Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, CanadaHenshaw, 1995 · Ph.D. thesis1
• Bird bones form Soldier's Hole Cheddar, SomersetHarrison, 1988 · Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society · journal article1
• Pleistocene and prehistoric birds of south-west BritainHarrison, 1987 · Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society · journal article1
• Kangiguksuk: A Cultural Reconstruction of a Sixteenth Century Eskimo Site in Northern AlaskaHall, Jr., 1971 · Arctic Anthropology · journal article1
• Ust'-Kanskaya peshchernaya paleoliticheskaya stoyankaRudenko, 1960 · Materiali i Issledovaniya po Arkheologii SSR · journal article1

Each of the 24 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. 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.

What may have been alongside itLagopus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)