Matuku otagoense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MatukuPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Ardeidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Ardeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ardeidae
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.7 Mya and 15.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Matuku otagoense on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Bannockburn Formation · Manuherikia Group3
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The named rock units Matuku otagoense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Matuku otagoense and its relatives
MioceneWhere Matuku otagoense and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Gekkota3 sites
- Hakawai melvillei3 sites
- Nelepsittacus minimus3 sites
- Scincidae3 sites
- Anserinae2 sites
- Aptornis proasciarostratus2 sites
- Dinornithiformes2 sites
- Leiopelma miocaenale2 sites
- Manuherikia douglasi2 sites
- Manuherikia lacustrina2 sites
- Mystacinidae2 sites
- Nelepsittacus daphneleeae2 sites
- Nelepsittacus donmertoni2 sites
- Palaelodus aotearoa2 sites
- Aegotheles1 site
- Charadriiformes1 site
- Collocalia1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
- Laridae1 site
- Leiopelma1 site
- Leiopelma acricarina1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Manuherikia minuta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Matuku otagoense, 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 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
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No picture of Matuku otagoense 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 Matuku otagoense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Matuku otagoense 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMatuku through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scofield et al. 2010