Podiceps

Podiceps is a genus of birds in the grebe family. The genus name comes from Latin podicis, "rear-end" and ped, "foot", and is a reference to the placement of a grebe's legs towards the rear of its body.

Podiceps

PaleoNeolitic (montage creator) Davidvraju Francisco González Táboas Becky Matsubara Mike's Birds Frank Vassen Birdin… · CC BY 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
PodicipedidaePBDB
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 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 93 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 93 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 51 of 93 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 26 of 93 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 66 occurrences8.725 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

93 occurrences of Podiceps 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

93 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

12 formations

San Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.74°N, 117.17°WSan Diego — 32.68°N, 117.07°WSan Diego — 32.64°N, 117.05°WSan Diego — 32.76°N, 117.13°WSan Diego — 32.74°N, 117.05°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WNuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WKempsville — 36.79°N, 76.17°WPeace River — 27.74°N, 81.93°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WAdu Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°ELaguna de Tagua Tagua — 34.50°S, 71.17°W

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The named rock units Podiceps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Podiceps and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Podiceps and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,782 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Podiceps, 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

48 references

Each of the 93 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. 36 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 content3

Picture of Podiceps

Credit
PaleoNeolitic (montage creator) Davidvraju Francisco González Táboas Becky Matsubara Mike's Birds Frank Vassen Birdin…
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Podilymbus podiceps · ISM:ISM-Aves:683844

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. Latham 1787