Threskiornis aethiopicus
The African sacred ibis is a species of ibis, a wading bird of the family Threskiornithidae. It is native to much of Africa, as well as small parts of Iraq, Iran and Kuwait. It is especially known for its role in Ancient Egyptian religion, where it was linked to the god Thoth. The species is currently extirpated from Egypt.
Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- Also called
- sacred ibisPBDB
- Sits inside
- ThreskiornisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Threskiornithidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Threskiornithidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Threskiornithidae
- Mass
- 62 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Threskiornis aethiopicus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Threskiornis aethiopicus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Threskiornis aethiopicus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Aepyornis1 site
- Alopochen sirabensis1 site
- Anas1 site
- Anas bernieri1 site
- Anastomus lamelligerus1 site
- Ardea cinerea1 site
- Ardea humbloti1 site
- Ardea purpurea1 site
- Brachypteracias langrandi1 site
- Dendrocygna1 site
- Fulica cristata1 site
- Larus1 site
- Lophotibis cristata1 site
- Mullerornis1 site
- Phoenicopterus roseus1 site
- Platalea alba1 site
- Porphyrio porphyrio1 site
- Pterocles personatus1 site
- Vanellus madagascariensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Threskiornis aethiopicus, 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 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Threskiornis aethiopicus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itThreskiornis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Latham 1790)