Graculavidae
No picture of Graculavidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Graculavidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CharadriiformesPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
10 occurrences of Graculavidae on record. 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
10 occurrences- Late Cretaceous42%
- Paleocene38%
- Eocene20%
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
5 formations
- Hornerstown Formation · Rancocas Group5
- Nanjemoy Formation1
- Bullion Creek Formation1
- Slope Formation1
- Fort Union Formation1
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The named rock units Graculavidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
330 taxa- Thoracosaurus neocesariensis4 sites
- Acipenser3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Champsosaurus3 sites
- Euclastes wielandi3 sites
- Lepisosteus3 sites
- Miacidae3 sites
- Neoplagiaulax hunteri3 sites
- Thryptacodon australis3 sites
- Adocus beatus2 sites
- Aetomylaeus striatus2 sites
- Agomphus pectoralis2 sites
- Amia2 sites
- Anguidae2 sites
- Carpodaptes hazelae2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Dorraletes diminutivus2 sites
- Dyrosauridae2 sites
- Ectocion collinus2 sites
- Ectypodus2 sites
- Graculavus velox2 sites
- Hexanchus2 sites
- Ignacius frugivorus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Graculavidae, 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
6 references- Presbyornis isoni and oher late Paleocene birds from North Dakota3
- The Cretaceous birds of New Jersey2
- Notice of some fossil birds, from the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the United States2
- Early Eocene shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) from the Tingamarra Local Fauna, Murgon, Queensland, Australia1
- Part 6. Early Eocene Birds from Eastern North America: A Faunule from the Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia1
- Preliminary description of Hesperornis regalis, with notices of four other new species of Cretaceous birds1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Graculavidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Graculavidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Graculavidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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. Fürbringer 1888