Francolinus

Francolinus is a genus of birds in the francolin group of the tribe Gallini in the pheasant family.

Francolinus

User:Shyamal · Public Domain · 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
francolinPBDB
Sits inside
PhasianidaePBDB
Diet
granivorePBDB, for Phasianidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Phasianidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Phasianidae

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 26 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 26 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–809 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Francolinus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

26 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

4 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°EAdu Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°E

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The named rock units Francolinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Francolinus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Francolinus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

510 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Francolinus, 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

10 references

Each of the 26 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 Francolinus

Credit
User:Shyamal
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Francolinus 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephens 1819