Picoides villosus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- hairy woodpeckerPBDB
- Sits inside
- PicoidesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Picidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Picidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Picidae
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
9 occurrences of Picoides villosus 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene98%
- Holocene2%
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.
Picoides villosus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Picoides villosus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
468 taxa- Falco sparverius7 sites
- Colaptes auratus6 sites
- Colinus virginianus6 sites
- Cyanocitta cristata6 sites
- Megascops asio6 sites
- Anas crecca5 sites
- Bonasa umbellus5 sites
- Ectopistes migratorius5 sites
- Podilymbus podiceps5 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos4 sites
- Gallinago gallinago4 sites
- Junco hyemalis4 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus4 sites
- Porzana carolina4 sites
- Scalopus aquaticus4 sites
- Scolopax minor4 sites
- Accipiter striatus3 sites
- Aegolius acadicus3 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus3 sites
- Asio3 sites
- Bubo virginianus3 sites
- Buteo3 sites
- Clethrionomys gapperi3 sites
- Corvus brachyrhynchos3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Picoides villosus, 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
8 references- Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula2
- The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas1
- Late Pleistocene birds from Kingston Saltpeter Cave, southern Appalachian Mountains, Georgia1
- The early and middle Pleistocene avifauna from Porcupine Cave1
- A late Pleistocene avifauna from northwestern Alabama1
- Quaternary vertebrate localities of Virginia and their avian and mammalian fauna1
- Evidence of a Boreal Avifauna in Middle Tennessee during the Late Pleistocene1
- The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia1
Each of the 9 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 Picoides villosus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Picoides villosus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPicoides through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)