Tigrisoma
Tigrisoma is a genus of herons in the family Ardeidae.

Reinhard Jahn, Mannheim · CC BY-SA 2.0 de · 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- Sits inside
- TigriornithiniPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Ardeidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Ardeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ardeidae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tigrisoma 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene73%
- Holocene27%
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.
Tigrisoma and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tigrisoma and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Accipitridae2 sites
- Cairina moschata2 sites
- Calidris fuscicollis2 sites
- Coragyps atratus2 sites
- Dendrocygna autumnalis2 sites
- Podilymbus podiceps2 sites
- Tyto alba2 sites
- Accipiter striatus1 site
- Aechmophorus occidentalis1 site
- Aenocyon dirus1 site
- Amazona1 site
- Amazona albifrons1 site
- Anas1 site
- Anas bahamensis1 site
- Anhinga anhinga1 site
- Anura1 site
- Ara militaris1 site
- Ara tricolor1 site
- Aramides cajaneus1 site
- Aramus guarauna1 site
- Ardea alba1 site
- Ardeidae1 site
- Arundinicola leucocephala1 site
- Asio stygius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tigrisoma, 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
4 references- The diversity and biogeography of late Pleistocene birds from the lowland Neotropics1
- Bare-throated tiger-heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) from the Pleistocene of Cuba: a new subfamily for the West Indies1
- Prehistoric exploitation of birds on the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico1
- A Pleistocene avifauna from Jalisco, Mexico1
Each of the 4 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 Tigrisoma
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Reinhard Jahn, Mannheim
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0 de
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tigrisoma 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Tigrisoma”
- 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 itTigriornithini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1827