Neognathae

Neognathae is an infraclass of birds, called neognaths, within the class Aves of the clade Archosauria. Neognathae includes the majority of living birds; the exceptions being the tinamous and the flightless ratites, which belong instead to the sister taxon Palaeognathae. There are nearly 10,000 living species of neognaths.

Neognathae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeornithesPBDB
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 least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 10422 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 27 of 10422 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 60 of 10422 occurrencesEocene — about 412 of 10422 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 213 of 10422 occurrencesMiocene — about 824 of 10422 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 385 of 10422 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4650 of 10422 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 16 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 8 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 29 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 70 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 88 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 59 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 52 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 101 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 109 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 77 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 109 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 108 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 271 occurrences14–9.0 Mya — about 199 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 339 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 8781 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka135 Mya0 Mya

10,422 occurrences of Neognathae 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

10,422 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

349 formations

San Diego — 32.74°N, 117.17°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.71°N, 117.12°WSan Diego — 32.57°N, 117.03°WSan Diego — 32.77°N, 117.20°WSan Diego — 32.76°N, 117.13°WSan Diego — 32.74°N, 117.05°WSan Diego — 32.80°N, 117.26°WSan Diego — 32.53°N, 117.05°WHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°ESanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.23°S, 72.37°WSanta Cruz — 47.50°S, 71.88°WSanta Cruz — 51.58°S, 69.23°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.50°S, 72.25°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 50.21°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 47.92°S, 72.14°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.97°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.43°S, 69.08°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°EVarswater — 33.00°S, 18.00°ETamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.72°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WBannockburn — 44.91°S, 169.86°EBannockburn — 44.89°S, 169.84°EBannockburn — 44.88°S, 169.75°EPisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WPisco — 15.44°S, 74.87°WPisco — 14.56°S, 75.67°WPisco — 15.50°S, 74.80°WPisco — 15.55°S, 74.80°WPisco — 15.67°S, 74.54°WPisco — 14.33°S, 75.90°WPisco — 15.06°S, 74.08°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.68°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.85°N, 1.27°ELondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°ELondon Clay — 51.41°N, 0.91°ELondon Clay — 51.87°N, 1.29°ETemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WTemblor — 36.54°N, 120.55°WTemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.73°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WSubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.62°WOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro — 34.03°N, 118.53°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.70°WMonterey — 34.95°N, 120.14°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WWicomico — 29.42°N, 82.22°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WGaiman — 43.30°S, 65.42°WGaiman — 43.28°S, 65.48°WGaiman — 43.33°S, 65.32°WGaiman — 43.44°S, 65.10°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.43°WGaiman — 43.05°S, 71.95°WGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°EGreen River — 42.00°N, 109.23°WGreen River — 41.77°N, 110.66°WGreen River — 41.83°N, 110.82°WGreen River — 40.53°N, 109.09°WGreen River — 41.73°N, 110.52°WGreen River — 41.87°N, 110.68°WGreen River — 41.67°N, 110.67°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°W

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The named rock units Neognathae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 325 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8,343 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neognathae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Neognathae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

5,181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 634 sites for Neognathae, and this reads 240 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

1,222 references

Each of the 10,422 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. 1,210 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

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Picture of Neognathae

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CC BY-SA 3.0
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No 3D scan of Neognathae 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

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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. (Pycraft 1900)