Spindalis zena
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- western spindalisPBDB
- Sits inside
- SpindalisPBDB
- 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 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.
3 occurrences of Spindalis zena 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
3 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.
Spindalis zena and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Spindalis zena and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Athene cunicularia3 sites
- Geotrygon chrysia3 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala3 sites
- Anolis sagrei2 sites
- Burhinus nanus2 sites
- Caracara creightoni2 sites
- Chlorostilbon ricordii2 sites
- Coccyzus minor2 sites
- Coereba flaveola2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Columbina passerina2 sites
- Corvus nasicus2 sites
- Corvus palmarum2 sites
- Falco sparverius2 sites
- Gallinago2 sites
- Gallinago kakuki2 sites
- Melanerpes superciliaris2 sites
- Mimus gundlachii2 sites
- Myiarchus sagrae2 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa2 sites
- Petrochelidon fulva2 sites
- Porzana carolina2 sites
- Psittacus leucocephalus2 sites
- Saurothera merlini2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Spindalis zena, 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
3 references- The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas1
- Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands1
- Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas1
Each of the 3 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 content2
Picture of Spindalis zena
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Spindalis zena nigricephala · FMNH:Birds:331114
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpindalis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)