Porzana

Porzana is a genus of birds in the crake and rail family, Rallidae. Its scientific name is derived from Venetian terms for small rails. The spotted crake is the type species.

Porzana

Uncredited · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
RallidaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 76 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 76 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 32 of 76 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 69 occurrences11.1 Mya11.7 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

76 occurrences of Porzana on record. 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

76 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

4 formations

Waimanalo — 21.30°N, 158.10°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WSajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°EAllingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°E

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The named rock units Porzana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Porzana, 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 76 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 Porzana

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itRallidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vieillot 1816