Galerida cristata
The crested lark is a species of lark widespread across Eurasia and northern Africa. It is a non-migratory bird, but can occasionally be found as a vagrant in Great Britain.
El Golli Mohamed · CC BY-SA 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- Also called
- crested larkPBDB
- Sits inside
- GaleridaPBDB
- 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 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Galerida cristata 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- Pleistocene100%
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.
Galerida cristata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Galerida cristata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Alauda arvensis4 sites
- Hirundo rustica4 sites
- Anguis fragilis3 sites
- Bufo bufo3 sites
- Bufo calamita3 sites
- Coturnix coturnix3 sites
- Eremophila alpestris3 sites
- Sturnus vulgaris3 sites
- Turdus merula3 sites
- Turdus philomelos3 sites
- Allocricetus2 sites
- Anthus pratensis2 sites
- Beremendia fissidens2 sites
- Cervus2 sites
- Corvus monedula2 sites
- Crocidura2 sites
- Emberiza citrinella2 sites
- Emys orbicularis2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Erithacus rubecula2 sites
- Garrulus glandarius2 sites
- Lacerta2 sites
- Lagopus lagopus2 sites
- Lagopus muta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Galerida cristata, 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- A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology)2
- 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 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 Galerida cristata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- El Golli Mohamed
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Galerida cristata 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
- 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 itGalerida through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)