Bathornis veredus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BathornisPBDB
- 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 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Bathornis veredus 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Bathornis veredus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bathornis veredus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bathornis veredus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Archaeotherium crassum1 site
- Heteromeryx dispar1 site
- Megacerops coloradensis1 site
- Palaeocrex fax1 site
- Palaeogyps prodromus1 site
- Phasmagyps patritus1 site
- Trigonias osborni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bathornis veredus, 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
3 references- The tibiotarsus of the fossil bird Bathornis veredus2
- Systematics and Evolution of the Gruiformes (Class Aves) 2. Additional Comments on the Bathornithidae, with descriptions of new species1
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bathornis veredus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bathornis veredus 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.
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What may have been alongside itBathornis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wetmore 1927