Leptoptilos

Leptoptilos is a genus of very large tropical storks, commonly known as adjutants. The name means thin feather. Two species are resident breeders in southern Asia, and the marabou stork is found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Leptoptilos

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CiconiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
volantPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–8.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.1–7.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.5–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.2–4.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.6–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–2.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.9–2.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–580 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences580 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka17.4 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Leptoptilos 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

14 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

5 formations

Nawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EBeglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°EPuerto Madryn — 42.25°S, 64.31°WMoghara — 30.38°N, 28.82°E

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The named rock units Leptoptilos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptoptilos and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Leptoptilos and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Leptoptilos, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Leptoptilos

Credit
This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves . Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author. I wou…
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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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 itCiconiidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesson 1831