Nothura

Nothura is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises five members of this South American family.

Nothura

Cláudio Dias Timm from Rio Grande do Sul · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TinamidaePBDB
Diet
granivorePBDB, for Tinamidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Tinamidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Tinamidae

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 9 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 9 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences850 ka–567 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences567 ka–283 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence283 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka8.5 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Nothura on record. 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

9 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.

Found in

4 formations

Cerro Azul — 36.70°S, 64.28°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 37.02°S, 64.51°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°W

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The named rock units Nothura 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.

Found in the same rock

256 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Nothura, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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 content2

Picture of Nothura

Credit
Cláudio Dias Timm from Rio Grande do Sul
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Nothura maculosa · USNM:BIRDS:USNM 635813

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagler 1827