Turnix
Searched as Turnix varia novaecaledoniae. The Paleobiology Database treats Turnix as the accepted name.
Uncredited · 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- Also called
- buttonquailPBDB
- Sits inside
- TurnicidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Turnix 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
7 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.
Turnix and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Turnix and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
414 taxa- Coturnix6 sites
- Corvus5 sites
- Isoodon obesulus5 sites
- Tiliqua5 sites
- Tyto alba5 sites
- Antechinus flavipes4 sites
- Aves4 sites
- Bettongia lesueur4 sites
- Bettongia penicillata4 sites
- Cercartetus nanus4 sites
- Coracopsis vasa4 sites
- Dasyurus viverrinus4 sites
- Egernia4 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis4 sites
- Lagorchestes4 sites
- Macropus rufogriseus4 sites
- Mastacomys4 sites
- Numida meleagris4 sites
- Otus rutilus4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Perameles bougainville4 sites
- Petaurus breviceps4 sites
- Potorous platyops4 sites
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Turnix, 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
2 references- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia4
- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves3
Each of the 7 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content3
Picture of Turnix
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Turnix suscitator fasciata · FMNH:Birds:515266
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 itTurnicidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonnaterre 1791