Aerodramus spodiopygius
The white-rumped swiftlet is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.
Duncan Wright · 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
- white-rumped swiftletPBDB
- Sits inside
- AerodramusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Apodidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Apodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Apodidae
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.
14 occurrences of Aerodramus spodiopygius 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
14 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.
Aerodramus spodiopygius and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Aerodramus spodiopygius and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Zapornia tabuensis8 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus samoensis6 sites
- Aplonis tabuensis5 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis5 sites
- Rattus exulans5 sites
- Tyto alba5 sites
- Ducula pacifica4 sites
- Phaethon lepturus3 sites
- Accipiter efficax2 sites
- Caloenas canacorum2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Columba vitiensis2 sites
- Drepanoptila holosericea2 sites
- Gallicolumba longitarsus2 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus2 sites
- Gallus gallus2 sites
- Gehyra2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei2 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus2 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata2 sites
- Pteropus2 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Aerodramus spodiopygius, 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
4 references- Fossil and archaeological avifauna of Niue Island, Pacific Ocean11
- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves1
- Biogeography of Tongan birds before and after human impact1
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia1
Each of the 14 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 Aerodramus spodiopygius
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Duncan Wright
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aerodramus spodiopygius 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 itAerodramus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Peale 1848)