Anomalopteryx didiformis

Goupil & Cie · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- AnomalopteryxPBDB
- 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 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.
9 occurrences of Anomalopteryx didiformis on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene41%
- Holocene59%
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.
Anomalopteryx didiformis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Anomalopteryx didiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Pachyornis elephantopus5 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides4 sites
- Gallirallus australis4 sites
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae3 sites
- Apteryx3 sites
- Dinornis struthoides3 sites
- Megalapteryx didinus3 sites
- Strigops habroptila3 sites
- Accipitridae2 sites
- Anatidae2 sites
- Aptornis defossor2 sites
- Chenonetta finschi2 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica2 sites
- Dinornithiformes2 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Mystacina robusta2 sites
- Pachyornis2 sites
- Rattus exulans2 sites
- Sceloglaux albifacies2 sites
- Turnagra capensis2 sites
- Acanthisitta chloris1 site
- Althornis melanura1 site
- Anas chlorotis1 site
- Anas superciliosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Anomalopteryx didiformis, 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- Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in Takaka Valley and on Takaka Hill, northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand4
- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand3
- Late Quaternary terrestrial vertebrate coprolites from New Zealand1
- On the reliability of archaeological rat bone for hydrocarbon dating in New Zealand1
Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Anomalopteryx didiformis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Goupil & Cie
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anomalopteryx didiformis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnomalopteryx through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1844)