Miophasianus altus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiophasianusPBDB
- Diet
- granivorePBDB, for Phasianidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Phasianidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Phasianidae
Time the record covers
At least 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 12.75 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.9 Mya to 11.1 Mya.
5 occurrences of Miophasianus altus 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
5 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
2 formations
- Miocene Lower Continental Complex Formation · Valles-Penedes basin Group1
- Detritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats Formation1
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The named rock units Miophasianus altus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Miophasianus altus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Miophasianus altus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Python2 sites
- Testudo2 sites
- Acanthocardia1 site
- Acrodonta1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
- Albanerpeton inexpectatum1 site
- Amalda obsoleta1 site
- Amblyolacerta1 site
- Ampelomeryx ginsburgi1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Amphiperatherium frequens1 site
- Amusium cristatum badense1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
- Anomia (Anomia) ephippium rugulosostriata1 site
- Aquila1 site
- Atlantoxerus blacki1 site
- Atrina pectinata vindobonensis1 site
- Azorinus antiquatus vindobonensis1 site
- Bittium reticulatum1 site
- Blanus1 site
- Bolma1 site
- Bransatoglis1 site
- Bufotes viridis1 site
- Bunolistriodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Miophasianus altus, 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
4 references- Old and new fossil birds from the Spanish Miocene2
- Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe1
- Middle Miocene birds of Devinska Nova Ves, Slovakia1
- Fossil Bones of Birds and Mammals from Grotto Pietro Tamponi and Grive-St. Alban1
Each of the 5 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 Miophasianus altus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Miophasianus altus 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.
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What may have been alongside itMiophasianus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards 1871)