Palaelodus crassipes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaelodusPBDB
- 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 least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
2 occurrences of Palaelodus crassipes on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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.
Palaelodus crassipes and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Palaelodus crassipes and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Palaelodus ambiguus2 sites
- Palaelodus gracilipes2 sites
- Anserpica kiliani1 site
- Borvocarbo guilloti1 site
- Chelydropsis1 site
- Ergilemys1 site
- Laricola elegans1 site
- Laricola totanoides1 site
- Mionetta blanchardi1 site
- Mionetta natator1 site
- Palaeortyx brevipes1 site
- Paraortygometra porzanoides1 site
- Passeriformes1 site
- Phoenicopterus1 site
- Procypseloides ignotus1 site
- Ptychogaster emydoides1 site
- Scolopacidae1 site
- Testudinidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Palaelodus crassipes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The late Oligocene birds of the Créchy quarry (Allier, France), with a description of two new genera (Aves: Pelecaniformes: Phalacrocoracidae, and Anseriformes: Anseranatidae)1
- Lower Miocene birds from Dolnice (Cheb basin), western Bohemia, part II1
Each 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. 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 Palaelodus crassipes
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Palaelodus crassipes 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 itPalaelodus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1871