Althornis melanura
No picture of Althornis melanura was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Althornis melanura firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Althornis melanura on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene91%
- Holocene9%
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.
Althornis melanura and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Althornis melanura and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Acanthisitta chloris1 site
- Accipitridae1 site
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae1 site
- Anomalopteryx didiformis1 site
- Coenocorypha aucklandica1 site
- Corvus1 site
- Cyanoramphus1 site
- Dinornis struthoides1 site
- Dinornithiformes1 site
- Euryapteryx1 site
- Hoplodactylus granulatus1 site
- Hoplodactylus maculatus1 site
- Leiolopisma sp.1 site
- Leioplema hamiltoni1 site
- Mohoua ochrocephala1 site
- Mystacina1 site
- Mystacina robusta1 site
- Pachyplichas yaldwyni1 site
- Petroica australis1 site
- Philesturnus1 site
- Rattus exulans1 site
- Turnagra capensis1 site
- Xenicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Althornis melanura, 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 content0
No picture of Althornis melanura was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Althornis melanura firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Althornis melanura 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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.