Fulica rufifrons

The red-fronted coot is a species of bird in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay.

Fulica rufifrons

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
red-fronted cootPBDB
Sits inside
FulicaPBDB
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 389 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 400 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences420 ka–390 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390 ka–360 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360 ka–330 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330 ka–300 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300 ka–270 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270 ka–240 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240 ka–210 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210 ka–180 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180 ka–150 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150 ka–120 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120 ka–90 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences90 ka–60 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60 ka–30 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences900 ka0 Mya

3 occurrences of Fulica rufifrons 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

3 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

2 formations

Laguna de Tagua Tagua — 34.50°S, 71.17°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°W

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The named rock units Fulica rufifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Fulica rufifrons and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Fulica rufifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fulica rufifrons, 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

Each of the 3 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 Fulica rufifrons

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fulica rufifrons 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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What may have been alongside itFulica through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Philppi and Landbeck 1861