Galerida
Galerida is a genus of birds in the family Alaudidae. The current scientific name is derived from Latin. Galerida was the name for a lark with a crest, from galerum, "cap". The name Galerida is synonymous with the earlier genus names Calendula, Heliocorys and Ptilocorys.
J.M.Garg · 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- 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 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Galerida 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
8 occurrences- Miocene13%
- Pleistocene88%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Galerida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Galerida and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Galerida and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
211 taxa- Alauda arvensis6 sites
- Turdus merula5 sites
- Garrulus glandarius4 sites
- Hirundo rustica4 sites
- Sturnus vulgaris4 sites
- Anguis fragilis3 sites
- Athene noctua3 sites
- Bufo bufo3 sites
- Bufo calamita3 sites
- Columba livia3 sites
- Coturnix coturnix3 sites
- Eremophila alpestris3 sites
- Melanocorypha calandra3 sites
- Perdix palaeoperdix3 sites
- Turdus philomelos3 sites
- Alectoris2 sites
- Allocricetus2 sites
- Anas2 sites
- Anser albifrons2 sites
- Anthus pratensis2 sites
- Beremendia fissidens2 sites
- Calandrella2 sites
- Calidris pugnax2 sites
- Cervus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Galerida, 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
6 references- Early Pleistocene birds from Pirro Nord (Puglia, southern Italy)2
- A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology)2
- A Lower Miocene gull (Larinae gen. indet.) (Laridae Vigors, 1825 - Charadriiformes Huxley, 1867) from Hrabarsko (W Bulgaria)1
- Implications of the avian fauna for palaeoecology in the Early Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula1
- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary1
- The Pleistocene birds of south-eastern England1
Each of the 8 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 Galerida
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- J.M.Garg
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Galerida was found in Sketchfab.
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Galerida”
- 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