Cinclosoma alisteri
The Nullarbor quail-thrush is a species of bird in the family Cinclosomatidae. It is the only Australian bird endemic to the Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia.

Neville W. Cayley · Public Domain · 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
- Nullarbor quail-thrushPBDB
- Sits inside
- CinclosomaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
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 Cinclosoma alisteri 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.
Cinclosoma alisteri and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cinclosoma alisteri and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Amytornis textilis1 site
- Artamus superciliosus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Charadriiformes1 site
- Circus1 site
- Estrildidae1 site
- Falco cenchroides1 site
- Gavicalis virescens1 site
- Passeriformes1 site
- Platalea1 site
- Turnix velox1 site
- Tyto novaehollandiae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cinclosoma alisteri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 content1
Picture of Cinclosoma alisteri
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Neville W. Cayley
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cinclosoma alisteri 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 itCinclosoma through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mathews 1910