Geotrygon chrysia
The Key West quail-dove is a species of bird from the doves and pigeon family Columbidae. It is probably most closely related to the bridled quail-dove.
Charles J. Sharp · 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
- Key West quail-dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- GeotrygonPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
- Mass
- 169 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Geotrygon chrysia 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene79%
- Holocene21%
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.
Geotrygon chrysia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Geotrygon chrysia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
140 taxa- Athene cunicularia5 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala5 sites
- Corvus nasicus4 sites
- Gallinago4 sites
- Melanerpes superciliaris4 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa4 sites
- Tyto pollens4 sites
- Zenaida aurita4 sites
- Burhinus nanus3 sites
- Caracara creightoni3 sites
- Colaptes3 sites
- Columbidae3 sites
- Corvus palmarum3 sites
- Mimus gundlachii3 sites
- Porzana carolina3 sites
- Psittacus leucocephalus3 sites
- Saurothera merlini3 sites
- Spindalis zena3 sites
- Turdus plumbeus3 sites
- Accipiter striatus velox2 sites
- Anolis sagrei2 sites
- Buteo quadratus2 sites
- Chlorostilbon ricordii2 sites
- Coccyzus minor2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Geotrygon chrysia, 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- Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas3
- Exceptionally well preserved late Quaternary plant and vertebrate fossils from a blue hole on Abaco, The Bahamas1
- Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands1
- Bird remains from cave deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas1
Each of the 6 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 Geotrygon chrysia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Geotrygon chrysia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itGeotrygon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bonaparte 1855)