Nesoclopeus poecilopterus

The bar-winged rail is an extinct species of bird in the family Rallidae.

Nesoclopeus poecilopterus

Finsch, O. (Otto), 1839-1917 Hartlaub, Gustav, 1814-1900 · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
bar-winged railPBDB
Sits inside
NesoclopeusPBDB
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 most 12 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesHolocene — about 4 of 4 occurrences17 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences512 ka0 Mya

4 occurrences of Nesoclopeus poecilopterus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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

4 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.

Nesoclopeus poecilopterus and its relatives

Holocene

Where Nesoclopeus poecilopterus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nesoclopeus poecilopterus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 4 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

Media content1

Picture of Nesoclopeus poecilopterus

Credit
Finsch, O. (Otto), 1839-1917 Hartlaub, Gustav, 1814-1900
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nesoclopeus poecilopterus 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

Licence
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 itNesoclopeus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hartlaub 1866)