Megapodiidae

Megapodiidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
megapodePBDB
Sits inside
GalliformesPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Galliformes
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Galliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 83 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 83 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 83 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 32 of 83 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 68 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

83 occurrences of Megapodiidae on record. 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

83 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

3 formations

Chinchilla Sand — 26.75°S, 150.63°EAllingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°ENamba — 31.14°S, 140.21°E

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The named rock units Megapodiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 80 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

397 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Megapodiidae, 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

24 references

Each of the 83 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. 12 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 content1

Picture of Megapodiidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Megapodiidae 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 itGalliformes through timeThe world it lived on

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