Phoenicopteridae

Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas, and two species native to Afro-Eurasia.

Phoenicopteridae

Valdiney Pimenta · CC BY 2.0 · 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
flamingoPBDB
Sits inside
PhoenicopteriformesPBDB
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 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 51 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 51 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

51 occurrences of Phoenicopteridae 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

51 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

18 formations

Namba — 31.17°S, 140.23°ENamba — 31.02°S, 140.32°EBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WWaite — 23.70°S, 133.88°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°EAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WTecopa Lake Beds — 36.00°N, 116.25°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WPeace River — 27.74°N, 81.93°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WChapala — 20.32°N, 103.19°WParana — 31.88°S, 60.65°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WAllingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°EKramer Beds — 35.05°N, 117.69°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°W

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The named rock units Phoenicopteridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phoenicopteridae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Phoenicopteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,686 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Phoenicopteridae, 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

35 references

Each of the 51 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. 23 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 Phoenicopteridae

Credit
Valdiney Pimenta
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPhoenicopteriformes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1838