Eremophila
The bird genus Eremophila comprises the two horned larks.

Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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- Sits inside
- AlaudidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, granivorePBDB, for Alaudidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Alaudidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Alaudidae
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
29 occurrences of Eremophila 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
29 occurrences- Pleistocene98%
- Holocene2%
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.
Eremophila and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Eremophila and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
831 taxa- Chenopodiaceae13 sites
- Cyperaceae13 sites
- Dodonaea13 sites
- Eucalyptus13 sites
- Macaranga13 sites
- Mallotus13 sites
- Monolete13 sites
- Poaceae13 sites
- Podocarpus13 sites
- Rapanea13 sites
- Rutaceae13 sites
- Trema13 sites
- Urticaceae13 sites
- Acacia12 sites
- Araucaria12 sites
- Asteraceae12 sites
- Celtis12 sites
- Dacrydium12 sites
- Elaeocarpus12 sites
- Eleocharis12 sites
- Hydrocotyle12 sites
- Lemna12 sites
- Machaerina12 sites
- Sapindaceae12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Eremophila, 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
15 references- A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen diagram from Lynch’s Crater, northeastern Queensland, Australia7
- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia6
- Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits3
- The fossil Birds of California2
- Late Pleistocene fossil birds from Buso Doppio del Broion Cave (North-Eastern Italy): implications for palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate1
- Birds of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene from the Palaeolithic Djuktai cave site of Yakutia, eastern Siberia1
- A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology)1
- Distribution and provenance of fossil avifauna on San Miguel Island1
- The early and middle Pleistocene avifauna from Porcupine Cave1
- Implications of the avian fauna for palaeoecology in the Early Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula1
- A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, California1
- The late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) avifauna of Little Box Elder Cave, Wyoming1
Each of the 29 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 content2
Picture of Eremophila
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Andreas Trepte
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itAlaudidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boie 1828