Calidris himantopus
The stilt sandpiper is a small shorebird. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek; the genus name kalidris or skalidris is a term used by Aristotle for a gray-colored waterside bird. The specific himantopus means "strap foot" or "thong foot", and also refers to the stilt.
Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren · 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
- stilt sandpiperPBDB
- Sits inside
- CalidrisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Calidris himantopus 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
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.
Calidris himantopus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Calidris himantopus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Anas bahamensis2 sites
- Arenaria interpres2 sites
- Athene cunicularia2 sites
- Burhinus superciliaris2 sites
- Calidris melanotos2 sites
- Cathartes aura2 sites
- Charadrius semipalmatus2 sites
- Charadrius vociferus2 sites
- Columbina cruziana2 sites
- Coragyps atratus2 sites
- Dendrocygna autumnalis2 sites
- Falco femoralis2 sites
- Falco peregrinus2 sites
- Geranoaetus melanoleucus2 sites
- Geranoaetus polyosoma2 sites
- Leucophaeus pipixcan2 sites
- Nycticorax nycticorax2 sites
- Phalaropus lobatus2 sites
- Phalaropus tricolor2 sites
- Pluvialis dominica2 sites
- Pluvialis squatarola2 sites
- Polyborus plancus2 sites
- Thinocorus rumicivorus2 sites
- Tringa flavipes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Calidris himantopus, 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 non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru1
- The late Pleistocene avifauna of La Carolina, southwestern Ecuador1
Each 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Calidris himantopus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Calidris himantopus 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.
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 itCalidris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bonaparte 1826)