Rallina eurizonoides
The slaty-legged crake or banded crake is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae.

Shantanu Kuveskar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- slaty-legged crakePBDB
- Sits inside
- RallinaPBDB
- 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 most 118 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Rallina eurizonoides 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
- Naha Formation · Ryukyu Group1
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The named rock units Rallina eurizonoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rallina eurizonoides and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Rallina eurizonoides and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Amaurornis phoenicurus1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Corvus macrorhynchos1 site
- Hypsipetes amaurotis1 site
- Manouria oyamai1 site
- Otus manadensis1 site
- Passeriformes1 site
- Streptopelia orientalis1 site
- Strix uralensis1 site
- Turdus pallidus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rallina eurizonoides, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Rallina eurizonoides
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Shantanu Kuveskar
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- NMNH - Division of Birds
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Rallina eurizonoides alvarezi · USNM:BIRDS:USNM 561972
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRallina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lafresnaye 1845)