Dendrocygna viduata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- white-faced whistling-duckPBDB
- Sits inside
- DendrocygnaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Anseriformes
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Anseriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dendrocygna viduata on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
4 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Dendrocygna viduata and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Dendrocygna viduata and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Cairina moschata2 sites
- Gallinula chloropus2 sites
- Phalacrocorax brasilianus2 sites
- Amazona1 site
- Anhima cornuta1 site
- Ara1 site
- Aramus guarauna1 site
- Ardea alba1 site
- Ardea cocoi1 site
- Asio clamator1 site
- Aythya affinis1 site
- Busarellus nigricollis1 site
- Buteo1 site
- Buteogallus meridionalis1 site
- Crax alberti1 site
- Dendrocygna autumnalis1 site
- Dendrocygna autumnalis discolor1 site
- Dendrocygna bicolor1 site
- Eudocimus1 site
- Ionornis martinica1 site
- Leptotila verreauxi1 site
- Mareca americana1 site
- Mycteria americana1 site
- Podilymbus podiceps1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dendrocygna viduata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Pre-Columbian bird remains from Venezuela3
- An archaeological record for the white-faced whistling-duck (Dendrocygna viduata) in central Panama1
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
Picture of Dendrocygna viduata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Dendrocygna viduata 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 itDendrocygna through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)