Rallidae

Rallidae

gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
railPBDB
Sits inside
GruiformesPBDB
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 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 727 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 727 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 727 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 727 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 727 occurrencesPleistocene — about 276 of 727 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 18 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 651 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

727 occurrences of Rallidae on record. 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

727 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

46 formations

Tamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WLaguna de Tagua Tagua — 34.50°S, 71.17°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°EPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WBorgloon — 50.82°N, 4.82°EWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 158.10°WSajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°EBannockburn — 44.91°S, 169.86°EBannockburn — 44.89°S, 169.84°EHagerman — 42.79°N, 114.95°WOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WAllingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°EAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WNawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EShanwang — 36.52°N, 118.54°ENamba — 31.17°S, 140.23°E

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The named rock units Rallidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 630 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

3,302 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 438 sites for Rallidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

217 references

Each of the 727 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. 205 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

Picture of Rallidae

Credit
gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rallidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vigors 1825