Hypsipetes amaurotis
The brown-eared bulbul is a medium-sized bulbul native to eastern Asia. It is extremely common within the northern parts of its range and can be found from southern Sakhalin to the northern Philippines.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- brown-eared bulbulPBDB
- Sits inside
- HypsipetesPBDB
- 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 most 118 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hypsipetes amaurotis 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- 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.
Hypsipetes amaurotis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hypsipetes amaurotis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Corvus macrorhynchos3 sites
- Turdus pallidus3 sites
- Buteo buteo2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Phalacrocorax capillatus2 sites
- Scolopax mira2 sites
- Streptopelia orientalis2 sites
- Zapornia fusca2 sites
- Zoothera dauma major2 sites
- Aix galericulata1 site
- Amaurornis phoenicurus1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Anser anser1 site
- Ardeidae1 site
- Butastur indicus1 site
- Circus spilonotus1 site
- Columba janthina1 site
- Coturnix japonica1 site
- Cuora1 site
- Emberizidae1 site
- Gallirallus1 site
- Gallirallus okinawae1 site
- Garrulus lidthi1 site
- Geoemyda japonica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hypsipetes amaurotis, 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
2 references- The Late Pleistocene fossil birds of the central and southern Ryukyu Islands, and their zoogeographical implications for the Recent avifauna of the archipelago2
- Birds around the Minatogawa Man: the Late Pleistocene avian fossil assemblage of the Minatogawa Fissure, southern part of Okinawa Island, Central Ryukyu Islands, Japan1
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 Hypsipetes amaurotis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Laitche
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hypsipetes amaurotis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHypsipetes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Temminck 1830)