Podiceps cristatus
The great crested grebe is a member of the grebe family of water birds. The bird is characterised by its distinctive appearance, featuring striking black, orange-brown, and white plumage, and elaborate courtship display that involves synchronised dances and displays.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- great crested grebePBDB
- Sits inside
- PodicepsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 920 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Podiceps cristatus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene20%
- Holocene80%
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.
Podiceps cristatus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Podiceps cristatus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Anas3 sites
- Anas chlorotis3 sites
- Anas superciliosa3 sites
- Aythya novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Biziura delautouri3 sites
- Mergus australis3 sites
- Poliocephalus rufopectus3 sites
- Tadorna variegata3 sites
- Anarhynchus frontalis2 sites
- Anas crecca2 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos2 sites
- Anatidae2 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Apteryx australis2 sites
- Ardenna grisea2 sites
- Aythya fuligula2 sites
- Callaeas cinereus2 sites
- Charadrius obscurus2 sites
- Chenonetta finschi2 sites
- Chlidonias albostriatus2 sites
- Chroicocephalus ridibundus2 sites
- Circus approximans2 sites
- Circus eylesi2 sites
- Corvus moriorum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Podiceps cristatus, 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
3 references- Birds of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene from the Palaeolithic Djuktai cave site of Yakutia, eastern Siberia2
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand2
- The Holocene fossil waterfowl fauna of Lake Poukawa, North Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Podiceps cristatus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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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What may have been alongside itPodiceps through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)