Gallinago

Gallinago is a genus of birds in the wader family Scolopacidae, containing 18 species.

Gallinago

Alpsdake · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
snipePBDB
Sits inside
ScolopacidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes

Time the record covers

At least 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.09 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8.725 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 64 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 58 of 64 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 4 of 64 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–922 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences922 ka–615 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences615 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences308 ka–0 Mya — about 56 occurrences5.09 Mya11.7 ka9.2 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Gallinago 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

64 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

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°W

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The named rock units Gallinago has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gallinago and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Gallinago and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,591 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Gallinago, 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

28 references

Each of the 64 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. 16 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 content2

Picture of Gallinago

Credit
Alpsdake
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Gallinago gallinago · LACM:Birds:93280

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itScolopacidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brisson 1760