Gallirallus
Searched as Gallirallus philippensis swindellsi. The Paleobiology Database treats Gallirallus as the accepted name.
Gallirallus is a genus of rails that live in the Australasian-Pacific region. The genus is characterised by an ability to colonise relatively small and isolated islands and thereafter to evolve flightless forms, many of which became extinct following Polynesian settlement.
en:User:Alan Liefting · 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- Sits inside
- RallidaePBDB
- 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 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gallirallus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
2 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Gallirallus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Gallirallus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
614 taxa- Gallus gallus21 sites
- Passeriformes21 sites
- Columbidae16 sites
- Chenonetta finschi15 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae15 sites
- Rattus exulans15 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis15 sites
- Rallidae14 sites
- Anous stolidus13 sites
- Cyanoramphus13 sites
- Didunculus placopedetes13 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae13 sites
- Porzana13 sites
- Phaethon lepturus12 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae12 sites
- Ducula pacifica11 sites
- Pluvialis fulva11 sites
- Squamata11 sites
- Pachyornis elephantopus10 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix10 sites
- Tadorna variegata10 sites
- Anas chlorotis9 sites
- Anas superciliosa9 sites
- Apteryx9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Gallirallus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Gallirallus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- en:User:Alan Liefting
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gallirallus 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Gallirallus”
- 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 itRallidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lafresnaye 1841