Burhinus oedicnemus
The Eurasian stone-curlew, Eurasian thick-knee, or simply stone-curlew, is a northern species of the Burhinidae (stone-curlew) bird family.
Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- Eurasian thick-kneePBDB
- Sits inside
- BurhinusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
- Mass
- 42 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Burhinus oedicnemus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Burhinus oedicnemus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Burhinus oedicnemus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- aff. Candidula sp.1 site
- Alectoris rufa1 site
- Anser1 site
- Athene noctua1 site
- Bos taurus1 site
- Bufo bufo1 site
- Buteo buteo1 site
- Canis familiaris1 site
- Capra hircus1 site
- Carcinus maenas1 site
- Cerastoderma edule1 site
- Chlamys (Mimachlamys)1 site
- Cimbium olla1 site
- Columba1 site
- Cornu aspersum1 site
- Crassostrea angulata1 site
- Delphinus delphis1 site
- Dicentrarchus1 site
- Equus1 site
- Falco1 site
- Felis catus1 site
- Gibbula (Steromphala)1 site
- Lepus1 site
- Littorina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Burhinus oedicnemus, 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 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Burhinus oedicnemus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBurhinus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758