Circus approximans
Uncredited · 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
- Swamp harrierPBDB
- Sits inside
- CircusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Mass
- 40 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Circus approximans 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
3 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.
Circus approximans and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Circus approximans and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Anas chlorotis3 sites
- Anas superciliosa3 sites
- Apteryx australis3 sites
- Callaeas cinereus3 sites
- Circus eylesi3 sites
- Corvus moriorum3 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae3 sites
- Cygnus sumnerensis3 sites
- Falco novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Fulica prisca3 sites
- Gallinula hodgenorum3 sites
- Gallirallus australis3 sites
- Harpagornis moorei3 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Nestor meridionalis3 sites
- Pachyornis elephantopus3 sites
- Sceloglaux albifacies3 sites
- Strigops habroptila3 sites
- Turnagra capensis3 sites
- Anarhynchus frontalis2 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Apteryx2 sites
- Aptornis defossor2 sites
- Ardenna grisea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Circus approximans, 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- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand2
- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 3 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. 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
Media content1
Picture of Circus approximans
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Circus approximans 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCircus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peale 1848