Titanis walleri

Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- TitanisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Phorusrhacidae
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
4 occurrences of Titanis walleri 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene75%
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 the same rock
136 taxa- Arctodus pristinus2 sites
- Capromeryx arizonensis2 sites
- Chasmaporthetes ossifragus2 sites
- Dasypus bellus2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Glyptotherium texanum2 sites
- Hemiauchenia gracilis2 sites
- Hemiauchenia macrocephala2 sites
- Holmesina floridanus2 sites
- Homotherium2 sites
- Megalonyx leptostomus2 sites
- Miracinonyx inexpectatus2 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus2 sites
- Procyon2 sites
- Smilodon gracilis2 sites
- Tapirus2 sites
- Accipiter cooperii1 site
- Agelaius phoeniceus1 site
- Aix sponsa1 site
- Ammodramus1 site
- Anabernicula gracilenta1 site
- Anas1 site
- Anas crecca1 site
- Anas platyrhynchos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Titanis walleri, 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- Titanis walleri: Bones of contention2
- Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula1
- A giant flightless bird from the Pleistocene of Florida1
Each of the 4 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
Media content2

Picture of Titanis walleri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dmitry Bogdanov
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Titanis walleri · UF:VP:4109
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 itTitanis through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brodkorb 1963