Rahonavis ostromi
No picture of Rahonavis ostromi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rahonavis ostromi 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 Rahonavis ostromi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RahonavisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Rahonavis ostromi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Rahonavis ostromi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rahonavis ostromi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Rahonavis ostromi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Avialae1 site
- Enantiornithes1 site
- Kinkonychelys rogersi1 site
- Madtsoia madagascariensis1 site
- Majungasaurus crenatissimus1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Masiakasaurus knopfleri1 site
- Ornithothoraces1 site
- Ornithurae1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Rapetosaurus krausei1 site
- Simosuchus clarki1 site
- Vahiny depereti1 site
- Vorona berivotrensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rahonavis ostromi, 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
2 references- A Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) avifauna from the Maevarano Formation, Madagascar1
- The theropod ancestry of birds: new evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar1
Each 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 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 Rahonavis ostromi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rahonavis ostromi 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 Rahonavis ostromi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rahonavis ostromi 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 itRahonavis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forster et al. 1998)