Phorusrhacidae

No picture of Phorusrhacidae was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Phorusrhacidae itself, so it was not used. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phorusrhacidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
terror birdPBDB
Sits inside
CariamaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 400 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 109 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 109 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 109 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 83 of 109 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 109 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 109 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 18 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 37 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences48.07 Mya400 ka57 Mya0 Mya

109 occurrences of Phorusrhacidae 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

109 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

29 formations

Santa Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 47.50°S, 71.88°WSanta Cruz — 51.58°S, 69.23°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 50.21°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 47.92°S, 72.14°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.97°WSanta Cruz — 50.43°S, 69.08°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WItuzaingo — 31.68°S, 60.42°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 44.35°S, 69.78°WSarmiento — 46.68°S, 68.35°WSarmiento — 45.33°S, 68.00°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WEpecuén — 37.18°S, 62.73°WEpecuén — 37.18°S, 62.77°WMonte Leon — 50.23°S, 68.92°WDolores — 34.42°S, 56.26°WDolores — 33.17°S, 57.17°WDolores — 33.07°S, 57.56°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°WUpper Moquegua — 17.21°S, 71.01°WChichinales — 39.13°S, 67.75°WPuerto Madryn — 42.83°S, 63.82°WPuerto Madryn — 42.78°S, 63.68°WAisol — 34.97°S, 68.54°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°WCollón Curá — 41.03°S, 70.26°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.62°S, 62.98°WItaboraí — 22.84°S, 42.88°WSolimões — 10.13°S, 67.81°WFray Bentos — 34.38°S, 56.18°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WTremembé — 22.94°S, 45.53°WChapadmalal — 38.17°S, 57.63°WRaigón — 34.53°S, 56.83°WAndalhuala — 26.82°S, 66.06°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°W

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The named rock units Phorusrhacidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phorusrhacidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phorusrhacidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

957 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Phorusrhacidae, 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

51 references

Each of the 109 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. 39 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Phorusrhacidae was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Phorusrhacidae itself, so it was not used.

Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phorusrhacidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itCariamae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1889