Chionis minor

Dominique Filippi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- Black-faced sheathbillPBDB
- Sits inside
- ChionisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
- Mass
- 625 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 645 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Chionis minor on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- 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.
Chionis minor and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Chionis minor and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Amphibolurus barbatus1 site
- Antechinus flavipes1 site
- Antechinus stuartii1 site
- Antechinus swainsonii1 site
- Bettongia1 site
- Bettongia penicillata1 site
- Calidris1 site
- Cercartetus nanus1 site
- Coturnix1 site
- Coturnix pectoralis1 site
- Dasyurus maculatus1 site
- Dasyurus viverrinus1 site
- Dromaius novaehollandiae1 site
- Egernia1 site
- Gallinago hardwickii1 site
- Gallirallus philippensis1 site
- Grallina cyanoleuca1 site
- Gymnorhina tibicen1 site
- Isoodon obesulus1 site
- Latagallina naracoortensis1 site
- Leipoa ocellata1 site
- Macropus (Macropus) fuliginosus1 site
- Macropus goliah1 site
- Metasthenurus newtonae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chionis minor, 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 Chionis minor
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dominique Filippi
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Chionis minor · l-jz:JZ:66
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChionis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hartlaub 1841