Cinclocerthia ruficauda
The brown trembler is a species of bird in the family Mimidae, the mockingbirds and thrashers. It is found on the islands of Saba, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica and St. Vincent in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean Sea.
Andrew Mawby · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- brown tremblerPBDB
- Sits inside
- CinclocerthiaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Mimidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Mimidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mimidae
- Mass
- 55 gWikidata
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.
3 occurrences of Cinclocerthia ruficauda 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
3 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.
Cinclocerthia ruficauda and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cinclocerthia ruficauda and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Margarops fuscatus3 sites
- Zenaida aurita3 sites
- Allenia fusca2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Geotrygon mystacea2 sites
- Ionornis martinica2 sites
- Passeriformes2 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa2 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri2 sites
- Alsophis1 site
- Amazona1 site
- Ameiva griswoldi1 site
- Anolis bimaculatus leachi1 site
- Athene cunicularia1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Brachyphylla cavernarum1 site
- Calidris1 site
- Cardisoma guanhumi1 site
- Coenobita clypeatus1 site
- Columbina passerina1 site
- Eleutherodactylus1 site
- Gecarcinus lateralis1 site
- Hapalocrex flaviventer1 site
- Icterus oberi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cinclocerthia ruficauda, 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- Archaeology of Trants, Montserrat. Part 5. Prehistoric avifauna2
- Fossil vertebrates from Antigua, Lesser Antilles: evidence for late Holocene human-caused extinctions in the West Indies1
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. 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 Cinclocerthia ruficauda
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Andrew Mawby
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Cinclocerthia ruficauda tremula · mec:o:071213-F
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 itCinclocerthia through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1836)