Coccyzus longirostris
The Hispaniolan lizard cuckoo is a species of bird in the tribe Phaenicophaeini, subfamily Cuculinae of the cuckoo family Cuculidae. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola that is shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
ZankaM · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- Hispaniolan lizard-cuckooPBDB
- Sits inside
- CoccyzusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Cuculidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Cuculidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Cuculidae
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 Coccyzus longirostris 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- Pleistocene30%
- Holocene70%
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.
Coccyzus longirostris and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Coccyzus longirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Columbina passerina3 sites
- Geotrygon3 sites
- Melanerpes striatus3 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala3 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa3 sites
- Siphonorhis brewsteri3 sites
- Asio2 sites
- Calyptophilus frugivorus2 sites
- Coccyzus rufigularis2 sites
- Contopus2 sites
- Dulus dominicus2 sites
- Loxigilla violacea2 sites
- Nesoctites micromegas2 sites
- Petrochelidon fulva2 sites
- Phaenicophilus palmarum2 sites
- Porzana carolina2 sites
- Priotelus roseigaster2 sites
- Tiaris bicolor2 sites
- Todus angustirostris2 sites
- Turdus plumbeus2 sites
- Tyrannus dominicensis2 sites
- Tyto alba2 sites
- Vireo altiloquus2 sites
- Zenaida asiatica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Coccyzus longirostris, 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 the Dominican Republic2
- A late-Holocene bird community from Hispaniola: Refining the chronology of vertebrate extinction 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. 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 Coccyzus longirostris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- ZankaM
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itCoccyzus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hermann 1783)