Argentavis magnificens

Argentavis magnificens

Uncredited · 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
ArgentavisPBDB
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 3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8 Mya and 5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene8.1–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–7.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.6–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5 Mya4.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Argentavis magnificens on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

4 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

2 formations

Epecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WEpecuén — 37.18°S, 62.73°WAndalhualá — 26.68°S, 66.03°W

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

Argentavis magnificens and its relatives

Miocene

Where Argentavis magnificens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Argentavis magnificens, 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

Each of the 4 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 content2

Picture of Argentavis magnificens

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Argentavis magnificens · MLP:65-VII-29-49

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. Campbell and Tonni 1980