Branta dickeyi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrantaPBDB
- Diet
- folivore, granivorePBDB, for Anserinae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Anserinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Anserinae
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.
2 occurrences of Branta dickeyi on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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 Branta dickeyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Branta dickeyi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Branta dickeyi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
214 taxa- Anas platyrhynchos2 sites
- Aythya affinis2 sites
- Aythya americana2 sites
- Branta canadensis2 sites
- Bucephala albeola2 sites
- Buteo2 sites
- Ciconia maltha2 sites
- Mareca americana2 sites
- Podilymbus podiceps2 sites
- Teratornis merriami2 sites
- Accipiter cooperii1 site
- Aetobatus narinari1 site
- Agkistrodon piscivorous1 site
- Alligator mississippiensis1 site
- Amphispiza1 site
- Anabernicula gracilenta1 site
- Anas crecca1 site
- Anas crecca carolinensis1 site
- Anguilla1 site
- Anser caerulescens1 site
- Anserinae1 site
- Antigone canadensis1 site
- Apalone ferox1 site
- Aphelocoma californica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Branta dickeyi, 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 referencesEach of the 2 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 Branta dickeyi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Branta dickeyi 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.
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What may have been alongside itBranta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1924