Archaeodromus anglicus

Archaeodromus anglicus is a species of prehistoric bird in the family Archaeotrogonidae, found in the Early Ypresian of the London Clay formation. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Archaeodromus. Both species and genus were described in 2021 by Gerald Mayr.

No picture of Archaeodromus anglicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Archaeodromus anglicus 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.

Time the record covers

At most 8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEocene56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56.5 Mya47.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Archaeodromus anglicus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

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.

Found in

1 formation

London Clay — 51.85°N, 1.28°E

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The named rock units Archaeodromus anglicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Archaeodromus anglicus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Archaeodromus anglicus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Archaeodromus anglicus, 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

1 reference

Each 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

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No picture of Archaeodromus anglicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Archaeodromus anglicus 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.

No 3D scan of Archaeodromus anglicus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.