Corvus albus
The pied crow is a widely distributed African bird species in the crow genus of the family Corvidae.
Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium · 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
- pied crowPBDB
- Sits inside
- CorvusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Corvidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Corvidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Corvidae
- Mass
- 21.8 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.
5 occurrences of Corvus albus 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene78%
- Holocene22%
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.
Corvus albus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Corvus albus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Coracopsis vasa2 sites
- Coua cristata2 sites
- Coua cursor2 sites
- Gallinula chloropus2 sites
- Numida meleagris2 sites
- Oena capensis2 sites
- Otus rutilus2 sites
- Ploceus sakalava2 sites
- Pterocles2 sites
- Pterocles senegallus2 sites
- Streptopelia picturata2 sites
- Turnix nigricollis2 sites
- Tyto alba2 sites
- Upupa marginata2 sites
- Accipiter madagascariensis1 site
- Acrantophis1 site
- Aepyornis1 site
- Aldabrachelys1 site
- Alexandrina alexandrina1 site
- Anatinae1 site
- Anhinga melanogaster1 site
- Apus1 site
- Archaeolemur majori1 site
- Arctocephalus pusillus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Corvus albus, 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- Pleistocene bird fauna from Bir Tarfawi (Egyptian western desert)2
- Bird fossils from Ankilitelo Cave: inference about Holocene environmental changes in southwestern Madagascar1
- Review of fossil phocid and otariid seals from the southern and western coasts of South Africa1
- New findings at Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar1
Each of the 5 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 Corvus albus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Corvus albus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pied crow”
- 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 itCorvus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muller 1776