Dasornis toliapica
No picture of Dasornis toliapica 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 Dasornis toliapica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dasornis toliapica 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
- London Clay Formation · Thames Group3
- Couche II Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Dasornis toliapica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dasornis toliapica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dasornis toliapica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
179 taxa- Acipenser toliapicus2 sites
- Aglyptorhynchus sulcatus2 sites
- Aglyptorhynchus venablesi2 sites
- Albula oweni2 sites
- Ampheristus toliapicus2 sites
- Argillichthys toombsi2 sites
- Beerichthys2 sites
- Bramoides brieni2 sites
- Bucklandium diluvii2 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus2 sites
- Dasornis emuinus2 sites
- Egertonia isodonta2 sites
- Elops2 sites
- Enniskillenus radiatus2 sites
- Eothynnus salmoneus2 sites
- Esocelops cavifrons2 sites
- Eutrichiurides winkleri2 sites
- Goniocranion arambourgi2 sites
- Gymnosarda prisca2 sites
- Lehmanamia sheppeyensis2 sites
- Macrodontopteryx oweni2 sites
- Myripristis toliapicus2 sites
- Naupygus bucklandi2 sites
- Osmeroides insignis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dasornis toliapica, 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- Birds of the British Lower Eocene2
- Pseudotoothed birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) from the early Tertiary of Morocco1
- A skull of the giant bony-toothed bird Dasornis (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the Lower Eocene of the Isle of Sheppey1
Each of the 4 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

CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Dasornis toliapica · NHMUK:PAL:PV OR 44096
No picture of Dasornis toliapica 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 Dasornis toliapica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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. (Owen 1873)