Struthio karatheodoris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StruthioPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Struthio
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Struthio
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Struthio
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Struthio karatheodoris on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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 Struthio karatheodoris 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.
Struthio karatheodoris and its relatives
MioceneWhere Struthio karatheodoris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Gazella5 sites
- Helladotherium duvernoyi5 sites
- Hipparion4 sites
- Adcrocuta eximia3 sites
- Palaeoreas lindermayeri3 sites
- Tragoportax amalthea3 sites
- Ancylotherium2 sites
- Choerolophodon pentelici2 sites
- Palaeotragus2 sites
- Acerorhinus neleus1 site
- Ancylotherium pentelicum1 site
- Bohlinia attica1 site
- Choerolophodon1 site
- Clemmydopsis mehelyi1 site
- Cremohipparion1 site
- Deinotherium giganteum1 site
- Dihoplus pikermiensis1 site
- Gazella pilgrimi1 site
- Hipparion dietrichi1 site
- Hipparion macedonicum1 site
- Hippotherium1 site
- Konobelodon atticus1 site
- Machairodus giganteus1 site
- Mesopithecus pentelicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Struthio karatheodoris, 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- First description of an ostrich from the late Miocene of Kerassia (Euboea, Greece): remarks on its cervical anatomy2
- First record of ostriches (Aves, Struthioniformes, Struthionidae) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria with taxonomic and zoogeographic discussion2
- Palaeontology of the upper Miocene vertebrate localities of Nikiti (Chalkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece) Aves1
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 content1
Picture of Struthio karatheodoris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Struthio karatheodoris 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStruthio through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forsyth Major 1888