Zapornia pusilla
Baillon's crake, also known as the marsh crake, is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Baillon's crakePBDB
- Sits inside
- ZaporniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 35 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Zapornia pusilla 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
1 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.
Zapornia pusilla and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Zapornia pusilla and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Anatinae1 site
- Ardea cinerea1 site
- Bubulcus ibis1 site
- Chlamydotis undulata1 site
- Circus1 site
- Corvus1 site
- Corvus albus1 site
- Fulica cristata1 site
- Gallinula chloropus1 site
- Gyps africanus1 site
- Microcarbo africanus1 site
- Nectariniidae1 site
- Nycticorax nycticorax1 site
- Oena capensis1 site
- Plegadis falcinellus1 site
- Pterocles1 site
- Pterocles senegallus1 site
- Riparia riparia1 site
- Turnix sylvaticus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Zapornia pusilla, 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 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Zapornia pusilla
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Zapornia pusilla 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
- 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 itZapornia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pallas 1776)