Meridiocichla salotti

Meridiocichla is an extinct genus of large thrush that inhabited Southern Europe during the Late Quaternary period. The sole species, M. salotti, is the largest known thrush from Europe, being about the size of a scaly thrush. Its phylogenetic relations to other thrush species are unclear.

No picture of Meridiocichla salotti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meridiocichla salotti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

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.

Pleistocene — about 8 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence21 ka–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

8 occurrences of Meridiocichla salotti on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

8 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.

Meridiocichla salotti and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Meridiocichla salotti and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Meridiocichla salotti, 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

1 reference

Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Meridiocichla salotti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meridiocichla salotti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meridiocichla salotti 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Louchart 2004