Setophaga
Setophaga is a genus of birds of the New World warbler family Parulidae. It contains at least 37 species. The Setophaga warblers are an example of adaptive radiation with the various species using different feeding techniques and often feeding in different parts of the same tree.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParulidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Setophaga 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
10 occurrences- Pleistocene94%
- Holocene6%
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.
Setophaga and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Setophaga and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
417 taxa- Falco sparverius6 sites
- Athene cunicularia4 sites
- Columbina passerina4 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala4 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa4 sites
- Porzana carolina4 sites
- Tyrannus dominicensis4 sites
- Tyto alba4 sites
- Accipiter striatus3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Eremophila alpestris3 sites
- Junco hyemalis3 sites
- Mimus gundlachii3 sites
- Mimus polyglottos3 sites
- Parulidae3 sites
- Passerculus sandwichensis3 sites
- Petrochelidon fulva3 sites
- Tiaris bicolor3 sites
- Turdus migratorius3 sites
- Turdus plumbeus3 sites
- Zenaida aurita3 sites
- Actitis macularius2 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus2 sites
- Agelaius tricolor2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Setophaga, 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
7 references- Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits2
- Studies on Fossil and Extant Vertebrates from San Salvador (Watling's) Island, Bahamas2
- Bird remains from the caves of Porto Rico2
- The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas1
- Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas1
- The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia1
- Fossil birds from the Dominican Republic1
Each of the 10 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 content3
Picture of Setophaga
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Mdf
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Setophaga cornonata · uf:o:52122
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Setophaga”
- 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 itParulidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1827