Dryolimnas cuvieri
The white-throated rail or Cuvier's rail is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is a fairly large rail, and has a flightless subspecies.
tcager · CC0 · 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
- white-throated railPBDB
- Sits inside
- DryolimnasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
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.
4 occurrences of Dryolimnas cuvieri on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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 Dryolimnas cuvieri 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.
Dryolimnas cuvieri and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Dryolimnas cuvieri and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Accipiter madagascariensis2 sites
- Archaeolemur edwardsi2 sites
- Avahi cleesei2 sites
- Babakotia radofilai2 sites
- Buteo2 sites
- Capra aegagrus2 sites
- cf. Boophinae indet.2 sites
- Chaerephon leucogastert2 sites
- Cheirogaleus medius2 sites
- Coracopsis nigra2 sites
- Coua2 sites
- Coua cristata2 sites
- Coua gigas2 sites
- Cryptoprocta2 sites
- Cryptoprocta ferox2 sites
- Eliurus2 sites
- Erymnochelys madagascariensis2 sites
- Eulemur mongoz2 sites
- Eulemur rufus2 sites
- Eurystomus glaucurus2 sites
- Felis lybica2 sites
- Galidia elegans2 sites
- Geckolepis2 sites
- Hapalemur griseus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dryolimnas cuvieri, 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- Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar2
- A terrestrial vertebrate palaeontological review of Aldabra Atoll, Aldabra Group, Seychelles1
- Pleistocene bird remains from Aldabra Atoll, Indian Ocean1
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. 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 Dryolimnas cuvieri
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- tcager
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dryolimnas cuvieri 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDryolimnas through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pucheran 1845)