Turnix velox
The little buttonquail is a species of buttonquail, part of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This species is resident in Australia, where it is one of the more common buttonquails.
tjeales · 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
- little buttonquailPBDB
- Sits inside
- TurnixPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
- Mass
- 37 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Turnix velox on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene33%
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 velox and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Turnix velox and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Anas superciliosa2 sites
- Antechinus flavipes2 sites
- Bettongia lesueur2 sites
- Cercartetus lepidus2 sites
- Corvus2 sites
- Coturnix pectoralis2 sites
- Egernia2 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis2 sites
- Gymnorhina tibicen2 sites
- Isoodon obesulus2 sites
- Lagorchestes2 sites
- Macropus rufogriseus2 sites
- Mastacomys2 sites
- Pezoporus wallicus2 sites
- Porzana fluminea2 sites
- Potorous platyops2 sites
- Pseudomys2 sites
- Rattus2 sites
- Tiliqua2 sites
- Tribonyx mortierii2 sites
- Trichosurus vulpecula2 sites
- Tyto novaehollandiae2 sites
- Acrobates pygmaeus1 site
- Aegotheles cristatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turnix velox, 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- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia II1
- The fossil avian assemblage from Weekes Cave (N-15), Nullarbor Plain, South Australia: corrections, additions and reinterpretation1
- Late Pleistocene Faunal Remains from Seton Rock Shelter, Kangaroo Island, South Australia1
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. 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 content1
Picture of Turnix velox
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- tjeales
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turnix velox was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTurnix through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1841)