Phalaropus lobatus
The red-necked phalarope, also known as the northern phalarope and hyperborean phalarope, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans.

Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
- red-necked phalaropePBDB
- Sits inside
- PhalaropusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
- Mass
- 6.3 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At least 198 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 0 Mya.
14 occurrences of Phalaropus lobatus 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
14 occurrences- Pleistocene93%
- Holocene7%
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.
Phalaropus lobatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Phalaropus lobatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
563 taxa- Podilymbus podiceps7 sites
- Athene cunicularia5 sites
- Charadrius vociferus5 sites
- Clangula hyemalis5 sites
- Falco sparverius5 sites
- Spatula clypeata5 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus4 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos4 sites
- Arenaria interpres4 sites
- Bubo virginianus4 sites
- Calidris melanotos4 sites
- Corvus corax4 sites
- Eremophila alpestris4 sites
- Fulica americana4 sites
- Gallinago4 sites
- Melospiza melodia4 sites
- Pelecanus erythrorhynchos4 sites
- Phalaropus tricolor4 sites
- Rallus limicola4 sites
- Synthliboramphus antiquus4 sites
- Tringa melanoleuca4 sites
- Tyto alba4 sites
- Aechmophorus occidentalis3 sites
- Aenocyon dirus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Phalaropus lobatus, 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
12 references- Pleistocene seabirds from Shiriya, northeast Japan: systematics and oceanographic context2
- Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits2
- New Record of Capybara (Rodentia: Caviidae: Hydrochoerinae) from the Pleistocene of San Diego County, California with Remarks on Their Biogeography and Dispersal in the Pleistocene of Western North America1
- Tigriornis leucolopha1
- The diversity and biogeography of late Pleistocene birds from the lowland Neotropics1
- Avian material from Rancho del Oro, a Pleistocene locality in San Diego County, California1
- Birds of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene from the Palaeolithic Djuktai cave site of Yakutia, eastern Siberia1
- The early and middle Pleistocene avifauna from Porcupine Cave1
- The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru1
- The late Pleistocene avifauna of La Carolina, southwestern Ecuador1
- A review of the Pleistocene birds of Fossil Lake, Oregon1
- Fossil birds from the Equus Beds of Oregon1
Each of the 14 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
Media content2
Picture of Phalaropus lobatus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Andreas Trepte
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- LACM Ornithology
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Phalaropus lobatus · LACM:Birds:104529
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 itPhalaropus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)