Dasornis emuinus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DasornisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pelagornithidae
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Dasornis emuinus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
12 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- London Clay Formation · Thames Group7
- Brussels Formation1
- Tielt Formation1
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The named rock units Dasornis emuinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dasornis emuinus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dasornis emuinus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Aglyptorhynchus sulcatus3 sites
- Aglyptorhynchus venablesi3 sites
- Albula oweni3 sites
- Eutrichiurides winkleri3 sites
- Rhinocephalus planiceps3 sites
- Trichiurides sagittidens3 sites
- Abdounia biauriculata2 sites
- Acipenser toliapicus2 sites
- Ampheristus toliapicus2 sites
- Anomotodon sheppeyensis2 sites
- Argillichthys toombsi2 sites
- Argillipes aurorum2 sites
- Beerichthys2 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei2 sites
- Bramoides brieni2 sites
- Bucklandium diluvii2 sites
- Carcharias hopei2 sites
- Carcharias macrotus2 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus2 sites
- Dasornis toliapica2 sites
- Egertonia isodonta2 sites
- Elops2 sites
- Enniskillenus radiatus2 sites
- Eocoelopoma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Dasornis emuinus, 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
6 references- Birds of the British Lower Eocene4
- Pseudotoothed birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) from the early Tertiary of Morocco3
- A Guide to the Fossil Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians in the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W. 72
- A diverse bird assemblage from the Ypresian of Belgium furthers knowledge of early Eocene avifaunas of the North Sea Basin1
- Bony-toothed birds (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the middle Eocene of Belgium1
- A skull of the giant bony-toothed bird Dasornis (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the Lower Eocene of the Isle of Sheppey1
Each of the 12 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Dasornis emuinus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dasornis emuinus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDasornis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bowerbank 1854)