Phasianidae

Phasianidae

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
pheasantPBDB
Sits inside
GalliformesPBDB
Diet
granivorePBDB
Life habit
volantPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 662 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 662 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 662 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 66 of 662 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 36 of 662 occurrencesPleistocene — about 322 of 662 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 9 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 16 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 17 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 41 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 533 occurrences51.1 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

662 occurrences of Phasianidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

662 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

37 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.23°S, 36.19°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EEastover — 37.77°N, 77.27°WEastover — 38.16°N, 76.83°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°ECromer Forest Bed — 51.64°N, 0.80°EOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.96°EMiocene Lower Continental Complex — 41.44°N, 2.00°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WVerde — 34.50°N, 112.50°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WCalvert — 37.67°N, 77.16°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.05°WEnspel — 50.61°N, 7.89°EShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°W

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The named rock units Phasianidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 586 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phasianidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Phasianidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

4,084 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 462 sites for Phasianidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

242 references

Each of the 662 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. 230 further references are not listed. 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 Phasianidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Horsfield 1821