Pelecanus tirarensis

Pelecanus tirarensis is an extinct species of pelican from Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene deposits in north-eastern South Australia. It was described in 1966 by Alden H. Miller from fossil material discovered in the Lake Eyre Basin.

No picture of Pelecanus tirarensis 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 Pelecanus tirarensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PelecanusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pelecaniformes

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 2 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Pelecanus tirarensis on record. 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

5 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

Namba — 31.17°S, 140.23°EKatipiri — 28.39°S, 138.32°EEtadunna — 28.78°S, 138.42°E

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The named rock units Pelecanus tirarensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pelecanus tirarensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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. 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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No picture of Pelecanus tirarensis 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 Pelecanus tirarensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pelecanus tirarensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1966