Quercymegapodiidae

Quercymegapodiidae is an extinct group of stem Galliformes birds with fossils found in France and Brazil.

No picture of Quercymegapodiidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Quercymegapodiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GalliformesPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Galliformes
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Galliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEocene84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya56 Mya84.3 Mya47.4 Mya

3 occurrences of Quercymegapodiidae on record. 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

3 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

2 formations

Dinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WLondon Clay — 51.85°N, 1.28°E

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The named rock units Quercymegapodiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Quercymegapodiidae, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Quercymegapodiidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Quercymegapodiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Quercymegapodiidae 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.

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 itGalliformes through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mourer-Chauviré 1992