Neornithes

Neornithes

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
Sits inside
AvesPBDB
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 11108 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 37 of 11108 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 72 of 11108 occurrencesEocene — about 458 of 11108 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 229 of 11108 occurrencesMiocene — about 948 of 11108 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 446 of 11108 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4919 of 11108 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 1 occurrence90–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 21 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 10 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 33 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 84 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 104 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 67 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 56 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 109 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 118 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 86 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 114 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 126 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 308 occurrences14–9.0 Mya — about 226 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 401 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 9238 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka135 Mya0 Mya

11,108 occurrences of Neornithes 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

11,108 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

393 formations

Hillgrove — 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 — 50.55°S, 69.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.21°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.25°S, 71.07°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°WSan 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°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°EVarswater — 33.00°S, 18.00°EBannockburn — 44.91°S, 169.86°EBannockburn — 44.89°S, 169.84°EBannockburn — 44.88°S, 169.75°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.68°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.25°N, 0.75°ELondon Clay — 51.85°N, 1.27°ELondon Clay — 51.70°N, 0.27°ELondon Clay — 51.50°N, 0.13°WLondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°ELondon Clay — 51.41°N, 0.91°ELondon Clay — 51.87°N, 1.29°ELa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.72°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WPisco — 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°WTemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WTemblor — 36.54°N, 120.55°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°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro — 34.03°N, 118.53°WOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.70°WMonterey — 34.95°N, 120.14°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°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°WGreen 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 — 41.67°N, 110.67°WGreen River — 41.73°N, 110.52°WGreen River — 41.87°N, 110.68°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WWillwood — 43.03°N, 108.38°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.58°N, 108.40°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.45°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.07°WWillwood — 45.00°N, 109.05°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.15°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.32°N, 108.02°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°W

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The named rock units Neornithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 369 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8,765 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neornithes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Neornithes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,841 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 670 sites for Neornithes, 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

1,353 references

Each of the 11,108 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. 1,341 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 content2

Picture of Neornithes

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

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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAves through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gadow 1893)