Charadriiformes

Searched as Charadriiformes indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Charadriiformes as the accepted name.

Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water and eat invertebrates or other small animals; however, some are pelagic (seabirds), others frequent deserts, and a few are found in dense forest. Members of this group can also collectively be referred to as shorebirds.

Charadriiformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
shorebirdPBDB
Sits inside
AvesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 28 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Charadriiformes 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

28 occurrences

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

10 formations

Bannockburn — 44.89°S, 169.84°EBannockburn — 44.91°S, 169.86°ELance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WAllen — 39.30°S, 67.53°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.67°WBuchak — 49.53°N, 39.07°ESajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°EPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WChichinales — 39.13°S, 67.75°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°W

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The named rock units Charadriiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Charadriiformes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Charadriiformes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,480 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 850 sites for Charadriiformes, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

21 references

Each of the 28 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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

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Picture of Charadriiformes

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No 3D scan of Charadriiformes 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Huxley 1867)