Icteridae

Icterids or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae, of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds. The family contains 108 species and is divided into 30 genera. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red. The species in the family vary widely in size, shape, behavior, and coloration.

Icteridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PasseriformesPBDB
Diet
insectivore, frugivorePBDB
Life habit
volantPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 1 of 119 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 113 of 119 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 5 of 119 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 99 occurrences1.8 Mya11.7 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

119 occurrences of Icteridae 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

119 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

4 formations

Wicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°W

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The named rock units Icteridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 112 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Icteridae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Icteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,407 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Icteridae, 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

46 references

Each of the 119 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. 34 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Icteridae

Credit
Kevin Cole from Pacific Coast, USA ( en:User:Kevinlcole )
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
bcbirds
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vigors 1825)