Phorusrhacinae

Phorusrhacinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhorusrhacidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 21 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 29 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10.0–9.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.1–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–209 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21 Mya2.58 Mya29.6 Mya209 ka

29 occurrences of Phorusrhacinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

29 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

7 formations

Santa Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 47.92°S, 72.14°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 69.03°WMonte Leon — 50.23°S, 68.92°WSolimões — 10.13°S, 67.81°WRaigón — 34.53°S, 56.83°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°WLa Victoria — 3.28°N, 75.12°W

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The named rock units Phorusrhacinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phorusrhacinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phorusrhacinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

307 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Phorusrhacinae, 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

15 references

Each of the 29 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Phorusrhacinae

Credit
FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phorusrhacinae 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itPhorusrhacidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1899