Proapteryx micromeros
No picture of Proapteryx micromeros was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Proapteryx micromeros itself, so it was not used. 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 Proapteryx micromeros, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProapteryxPBDB
- 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 most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.7 Mya and 15.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Proapteryx micromeros 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Bannockburn Formation · Manuherikia Group2
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The named rock units Proapteryx micromeros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Proapteryx micromeros and its relatives
MioceneWhere Proapteryx micromeros and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Hakawai melvillei2 sites
- Aptornis proasciarostratus1 site
- Dinornithiformes1 site
- Gekkota1 site
- Leiopelma1 site
- Leiopelma miocaenale1 site
- Manuherikia douglasi1 site
- Manuherikia lacustrina1 site
- Matuku otagoense1 site
- Meiolaniidae1 site
- Mystacina miocenalis1 site
- Mystacinidae1 site
- Nelepsittacus daphneleeae1 site
- Nelepsittacus donmertoni1 site
- Nelepsittacus minimus1 site
- Palaelodus aotearoa1 site
- Scincidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Proapteryx micromeros, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Proapteryx micromeros was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Proapteryx micromeros itself, so it was not used.
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 Proapteryx micromeros, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proapteryx micromeros was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProapteryx through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Worthy et al. 2013