Branta hutchinsii
The cackling goose is a species of goose found in North America and East Asia.
Paul Danese · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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- Also called
- cackling goosePBDB
- 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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Branta hutchinsii on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
5 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.
Branta hutchinsii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Branta hutchinsii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
247 taxa- Buteo jamaicensis4 sites
- Phalacrocorax auritus4 sites
- Podiceps auritus4 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus3 sites
- Ardea alba3 sites
- Ardea herodias3 sites
- Branta canadensis3 sites
- Fulica americana3 sites
- Grus americana3 sites
- Lontra canadensis3 sites
- Mammut americanum3 sites
- Meleagris gallopavo3 sites
- Paramylodon harlani3 sites
- Podilymbus podiceps3 sites
- Tremarctos floridanus3 sites
- Aenocyon dirus2 sites
- Agelaius tricolor2 sites
- Anas acuta2 sites
- Anas crecca carolinensis2 sites
- Anas fulvigula2 sites
- Antigone canadensis2 sites
- Athene cunicularia2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Bison2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Branta hutchinsii, 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- The avifauna of the Pleistocene in Florida3
- Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits2
Each of the 5 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 hutchinsii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Paul Danese
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Branta hutchinsii 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
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. (Richardson 1832)