Cygnus sumnerensis
No picture of Cygnus sumnerensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Cygnus sumnerensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CygnusPBDB
- Diet
- folivore, granivorePBDB, for Anserinae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Anserinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Anserinae
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Cygnus sumnerensis on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
10 occurrences- Pleistocene10%
- Holocene90%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cygnus sumnerensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cygnus sumnerensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cygnus sumnerensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Anas chlorotis5 sites
- Corvus moriorum5 sites
- Gallirallus australis5 sites
- Nestor meridionalis5 sites
- Anas superciliosa4 sites
- Apteryx australis4 sites
- Ardenna grisea4 sites
- Circus eylesi4 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae4 sites
- Cyanoramphus4 sites
- Eudyptula minor4 sites
- Fulica prisca4 sites
- Harpagornis moorei4 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Larus dominicanus4 sites
- Mergus australis4 sites
- Phalacrocorax punctatus4 sites
- Strigops habroptila4 sites
- Tadorna variegata4 sites
- Turnagra capensis4 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Apteryx3 sites
- Aythya novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Biziura delautouri3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cygnus sumnerensis, 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
3 references- The history of the Chatham Islands' bird fauna of the last 7000 years - a chronicle of change and extinction5
- Ancient DNA and morphometric analysis reveal extinction and replacement of New Zealand’s unique black swans4
- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 10 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 Cygnus sumnerensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cygnus sumnerensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cygnus sumnerensis 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 itCygnus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1889)