Egretta

Egretta is a genus of medium-sized herons, mostly breeding in warmer climates.

Egretta

Benjamint444 · GFDL 1.2 · 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
egretPBDB
Sits inside
ArdeidaePBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Ardeidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Ardeidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ardeidae

Time the record covers

At least 9.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 33 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 33 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 11 of 33 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10.0–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.2–4.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.3–3.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.9–3.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.7–1.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.3–867 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences867 ka–433 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences433 ka–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences9.4 Mya11.7 ka13 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Egretta 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

33 occurrences

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

6 formations

Rexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WBone Valley — 27.90°N, 81.80°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WAllingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°E

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The named rock units Egretta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Egretta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Egretta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

954 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Egretta, 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

24 references

Each of the 33 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Egretta

Credit
Benjamint444
Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Egretta thula · KU:KUO:56667

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
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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.

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What may have been alongside itArdeidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forster 1817