Platyspiza crassirostris
The vegetarian finch is a species of bird in the Darwin's finch group of the tanager family Thraupidae endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It is the only member of the genus Platyspiza.
Uncredited · 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
- vegetarian finchPBDB
- Sits inside
- PlatyspizaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 36 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Platyspiza crassirostris 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Platyspiza crassirostris and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Platyspiza crassirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Alsophis1 site
- Ardeidae1 site
- Aves1 site
- Camarhynchus parvulus1 site
- Camarhynchus pauper1 site
- Certhidea olivacea1 site
- Felis domesticus1 site
- Geochelone elephantopus1 site
- Geospiza1 site
- Geospiza difficilis1 site
- Geospiza fortis1 site
- Geospiza fuliginosa1 site
- Geospiza magnirostris1 site
- Geospiza scandens1 site
- Lasiurus borealis1 site
- Mimus trifasciatus1 site
- Mus musculus1 site
- Myiarchus magnirostris1 site
- Nyctanassa violacea1 site
- Oceanodroma castro1 site
- Osteichthves indet.1 site
- Passeriformes1 site
- Phyllodactylus1 site
- Pterodroma phaeopygia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Platyspiza crassirostris, 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 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Platyspiza crassirostris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Platyspiza crassirostris 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 itPlatyspiza through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1837)