Icterus

Brezinski, David for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service · Public Domain · 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.

Also called

New World oriolePBDB

Sits inside

IcteridaePBDB

Diet

insectivore, frugivorePBDB, for Icteridae

Life habit

volantPBDB, for Icteridae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Icteridae

• Pleistocene90%
• Holocene10%

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.

Where Icterus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Falco sparverius7 sites
• Athene cunicularia6 sites
• Charadrius vociferus5 sites
• Eremophila alpestris5 sites
• Agelaius phoeniceus4 sites
• Asio flammeus4 sites
• Aves4 sites
• Colaptes auratus4 sites
• Fulica americana4 sites
• Lanius ludovicianus4 sites
• Oreoscoptes montanus4 sites
• Podilymbus podiceps4 sites
• Rissa tridactyla4 sites
• Salpinctes obsoletus4 sites
• Setophaga coronata4 sites
• Spatula clypeata4 sites
• Sturnella neglecta4 sites
• Turdus migratorius4 sites
• Tyrannus dominicensis4 sites
• Tyto alba4 sites
• Aenocyon dirus3 sites
• Anas crecca3 sites
• Branta canadensis3 sites
• Bufo3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Icterus, 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.

• Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave DepositsCollins et al., 2018 · Western North American Naturalist · journal article3
• Bird remains from the caves of Porto RicoWetmore, 1922 · Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History · journal article2
• The diversity and biogeography of late Pleistocene birds from the lowland NeotropicsSteadman et al., 2015 · Quaternary Research · journal article1
• Late Pleistocene passerine birds from Sonora, MexicoOswald and Steadman, 2011 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · journal article1
• Tovar et al., 20074th European Meeting on the Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America · journal article1
• Archaeology of Trants, Montserrat. Part 5. Prehistoric avifaunaReis and Steadman, 1999 · Annals of Carnegie Museum · journal article1
• Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman IslandsMorgan, 1994 · The Cayman Islands: Natural History and Biogeography · book chapter1
• The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of VirginiaGuilday et al., 1977 · Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History · journal article1
• The fossil Birds of CaliforniaMiller and DeMay, 1942 · University of California Publications in Zoology · journal article1

Each of the 12 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.

What may have been alongside itIcteridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brisson 1760