Coturnix

Coturnix is a genus of five extant species and five to eight known extinct species of Old World quail.

Coturnix

Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
quailPBDB
Sits inside
PhasianidaePBDB
Diet
granivorePBDB, for Phasianidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Phasianidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Phasianidae

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 82 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 82 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 37 of 82 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 41 of 82 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–1.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.0–775 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 64 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

82 occurrences of Coturnix on record. 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

82 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

3 formations

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°E

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The named rock units Coturnix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,077 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Coturnix, 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

41 references

Each of the 82 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. 29 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

Media content1

Picture of Coturnix

Credit
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coturnix 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.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonnaterre 1791