Podiceps parvus
Podiceps parvus was a grebe in the genus Podiceps native to the North America. It went extinct in late Pleistocene.
No picture of Podiceps parvus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Podiceps parvus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PodicepsPBDB
- 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Podiceps parvus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene80%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Podiceps parvus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Podiceps parvus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Podiceps parvus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Aythya affinis4 sites
- Aechmophorus occidentalis3 sites
- Equus3 sites
- Fulica americana3 sites
- Oxyura jamaicensis3 sites
- Pelecanus erythrorhynchos3 sites
- Phalaropus lobatus3 sites
- Podilymbus podiceps3 sites
- Rallus limicola3 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus2 sites
- Aphelocoma californica2 sites
- Callipepla californica2 sites
- Geococcyx californianus2 sites
- Hemiauchenia2 sites
- Melospiza melodia2 sites
- Phoenicopterus copei2 sites
- Platygonus2 sites
- Recurvirostra americana2 sites
- Spatula clypeata2 sites
- Tapirus2 sites
- Thomomys2 sites
- Toxostoma redivivum2 sites
- Vireo2 sites
- Aechmophorus lucasi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Podiceps parvus, 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
5 references- New Record of Capybara (Rodentia: Caviidae: Hydrochoerinae) from the Pleistocene of San Diego County, California with Remarks on Their Biogeography and Dispersal in the Pleistocene of Western North America1
- Avian material from Rancho del Oro, a Pleistocene locality in San Diego County, California1
- Pleistocene birds from the Valley of Mexico1
- Further bird remains from the San Diego Pliocene1
- A review of the Pleistocene birds of Fossil Lake, Oregon1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Podiceps parvus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Podiceps parvus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Podiceps parvus 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.
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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schufeldt 1913)