Furnariidae

Ovenbirds or furnariids are a large family of small suboscine passerine birds found from Mexico and Central to southern South America. They form the family Furnariidae. This is a large family containing around 321 species and 71 genera. The bird known as the ovenbird, which breeds in North America, is not a furnariid – rather it is a distantly related bird of the wood warbler family, Parulidae.

Furnariidae

Hector Bottai · CC BY 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
PasseriformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 271 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 400 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.75 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pleistocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–975 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences975 ka–900 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences900 ka–825 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences825 ka–750 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences750 ka–675 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences675 ka–600 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences600 ka–525 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525 ka–450 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450 ka–375 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375 ka–300 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300 ka–225 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225 ka–150 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150 ka–75 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75 ka–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences400 ka – 129 ka2.25 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Furnariidae 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

3 occurrences

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.

Found in

2 formations

Pampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WMiramar — 37.98°S, 57.59°W

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The named rock units Furnariidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Furnariidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Furnariidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Furnariidae, 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

3 references

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 Furnariidae

Credit
Hector Bottai
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Furnariidae 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.

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.

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What may have been alongside itPasseriformes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1840