Cypseloides niger
Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- black swiftPBDB
- Sits inside
- CypseloidesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Apodidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Apodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Apodidae
- Mass
- 45.6 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cypseloides niger 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
1 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.
Cypseloides niger and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cypseloides niger and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Accipiter striatus1 site
- Amazona ventralis1 site
- Chlorostilbon swainsonii1 site
- Coccyzus longirostris1 site
- Columbina passerina1 site
- Geotrygon1 site
- Loxia megaplaga1 site
- Melanerpes striatus1 site
- Mellisuga minima1 site
- Patagioenas1 site
- Patagioenas inornata1 site
- Patagioenas leucocephala1 site
- Patagioenas squamosa1 site
- Priotelus roseigaster1 site
- Pterodroma hasitata1 site
- Scolopax1 site
- Siphonorhis brewsteri1 site
- Sphyrapicus varius1 site
- Streptoprocne zonaris1 site
- Todus angustirostris1 site
- Tyto alba1 site
- Tyto glaucops1 site
- Zenaida aurita1 site
- Zenaida macroura1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cypseloides niger, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Cypseloides niger
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cypseloides niger was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCypseloides through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1789)