Phaenicophilus palmarum
The black-crowned palm-tanager or black-crowned tanager is a species of bird of the family Phaenicophilidae, the Hispaniolan palm-tanagers. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola which is shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Wwcsig · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- black-crowned palm-tanagerPBDB
- Sits inside
- PhaenicophilusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 31 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.
2 occurrences of Phaenicophilus palmarum on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene46%
- Holocene55%
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.
Phaenicophilus palmarum and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Phaenicophilus palmarum and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Asio2 sites
- Calyptophilus frugivorus2 sites
- Coccyzus longirostris2 sites
- Coccyzus rufigularis2 sites
- Columbina passerina2 sites
- Contopus2 sites
- Dulus dominicus2 sites
- Geotrygon2 sites
- Loxigilla violacea2 sites
- Melanerpes striatus2 sites
- Nesoctites micromegas2 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala2 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa2 sites
- Petrochelidon fulva2 sites
- Porzana carolina2 sites
- Siphonorhis brewsteri2 sites
- Tiaris bicolor2 sites
- Turdus plumbeus2 sites
- Tyrannus dominicensis2 sites
- Vireo altiloquus2 sites
- Zenaida asiatica2 sites
- Anthracothorax dominicus1 site
- Athene cunicularia1 site
- Coccyzus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phaenicophilus palmarum, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Phaenicophilus palmarum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Wwcsig
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phaenicophilus palmarum was found in Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhaenicophilus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)