Perdix palaeoperdix
species · Mourer-Chauviré 1975 · accepted · extinct
3 fossil sites · 2 countries
Lived when
Quaternary
1.8–0.774 million years ago
Found where
2 countries
0 rock formations
Fossil record
3 sites
0 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 1 million years, from 1.8 to 0.774 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 0.774 million years old — that is roughly 3 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Perdix palaeoperdix was named in 1975 (Mourer-Chauviré 1975) — 51 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 2 countries.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).