Megalurus punctatus
Uncredited · via Wikidata/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- Also called
- fernbirdPBDB
- Sits inside
- MegalurusPBDB
- 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 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Megalurus punctatus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
7 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Megalurus punctatus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Megalurus punctatus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Coturnix novaezelandiae7 sites
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae6 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica6 sites
- Cyanoramphus6 sites
- Hoplodactylus maculatus5 sites
- Philesturnus carunculatus5 sites
- Anthornis melanura4 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Callaeas cinereus4 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Oligosoma lineoocellatum4 sites
- Rattus exulans4 sites
- Sceloglaux albifacies4 sites
- Sturnus vulgaris4 sites
- Apteryx3 sites
- Carduelis carduelis3 sites
- Chenonetta finschi3 sites
- Falco novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Gallinula hodgenorum3 sites
- Gallirallus australis3 sites
- Hoplodactylus duvaucelii3 sites
- Mus musculus3 sites
- Mystacina robusta3 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Megalurus punctatus, 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
2 references- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand6
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 7 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.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Megalurus punctatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Megalurus punctatus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMegalurus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quoy and Gaimard 1830)