Podilymbus podiceps

The pied-billed grebe is a species of the grebe family of water birds primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas.

Podilymbus podiceps

Dori · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
pied-billed grebePBDB
Sits inside
PodilymbusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Mass
20.5 gWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 3 of 45 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 38 of 45 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 4 of 45 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

45 occurrences of Podilymbus 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

45 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

6 formations

Tamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WCaloosahatchee — 27.00°N, 82.00°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°W

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The named rock units Podilymbus podiceps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Podilymbus podiceps and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Podilymbus podiceps and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Podilymbus 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

37 references

Each of the 45 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. 25 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 Podilymbus podiceps

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Dori
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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Podilymbus podiceps · ISM:ISM-Aves:683844

3D model

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Sketchfab
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MooreLab
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The description on this site

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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 itPodilymbus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)