Colymbidae
No picture of Colymbidae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Colymbidae itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colymbidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ColymbiformesPBDB
- 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 least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Colymbidae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
9 occurrences- Oligocene11%
- Miocene10%
- Pliocene47%
- Pleistocene32%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Colymbidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Colymbidae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Colymbidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
249 taxa- Colymbus5 sites
- Querquedula3 sites
- Anatidae2 sites
- Aquila chrysaetos2 sites
- Brachyramphus pliocenum2 sites
- Branta minuscula2 sites
- Corvus corax2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Falco peregrinus2 sites
- Fringillidae2 sites
- Mancalla californiensis2 sites
- Panalcidae2 sites
- Phalacrocorax kennelli2 sites
- Puffinus kanakoffi2 sites
- Spatula clypeata2 sites
- Accipiter cooperii1 site
- Accipiter gentilis1 site
- Accipiter striatus velox1 site
- Aegolius acadicus1 site
- Aegypius monachus1 site
- Agelaius1 site
- Alcidae1 site
- Alectoris graeca saxatilis1 site
- Alectoris rufa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Colymbidae, 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
8 references- Pliocene bird remains from Idaho2
- Further bird remains from the San Diego Pliocene1
- A collection of bird remains from the Pliocene of San Diego, California1
- The fossil Birds of California1
- La grotte de l'Observatoire à Monaco1
- Fossil birds from southeastern Arizona1
- Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University1
- Sette uccelli pliocenici del Pisano e del Valdarno Superiore1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Colymbidae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Colymbidae itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colymbidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Colymbidae 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.
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What may have been alongside itColymbiformes through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shaw 1824