Aptornis defossor
James Erxleben · 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
- AptornisPBDB
- 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 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Aptornis defossor 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
11 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Aptornis defossor and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Aptornis defossor and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Chenonetta finschi7 sites
- Gallirallus australis7 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica5 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae5 sites
- Cyanoramphus5 sites
- Pachyornis elephantopus5 sites
- Callaeas cinereus4 sites
- Cnemiornis calcitrans4 sites
- Emeus crassus4 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides4 sites
- Gallinula hodgenorum4 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Petroica australis4 sites
- Philesturnus carunculatus4 sites
- Porphyrio hochstetteri4 sites
- Strigops habroptila4 sites
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae3 sites
- Apteryx3 sites
- Apteryx australis3 sites
- Dinornis giganteus3 sites
- Fulica prisca3 sites
- Harpagornis moorei3 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix3 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Aptornis defossor, 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
2 references- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand10
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 11 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 Aptornis defossor
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- James Erxleben
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aptornis defossor 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAptornis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1871