Nelepsittacus daphneleeae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NelepsittacusPBDB
- 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 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.7 Mya and 15.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nelepsittacus daphneleeae 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
2 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
1 formation
- Bannockburn Formation · Manuherikia Group2
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The named rock units Nelepsittacus daphneleeae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nelepsittacus daphneleeae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Nelepsittacus daphneleeae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Aptornis proasciarostratus2 sites
- Dinornithiformes2 sites
- Gekkota2 sites
- Hakawai melvillei2 sites
- Leiopelma miocaenale2 sites
- Manuherikia douglasi2 sites
- Manuherikia lacustrina2 sites
- Matuku otagoense2 sites
- Mystacinidae2 sites
- Nelepsittacus donmertoni2 sites
- Nelepsittacus minimus2 sites
- Palaelodus aotearoa2 sites
- Scincidae2 sites
- Aegotheles1 site
- Anserinae1 site
- Charadriiformes1 site
- Collocalia1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
- Laridae1 site
- Leiopelma1 site
- Leiopelma acricarina1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Manuherikia minuta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nelepsittacus daphneleeae, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Nelepsittacus daphneleeae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- HannahMoss
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nelepsittacus daphneleeae 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 itNelepsittacus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Worthy et al. 2011