Sylvia

Sylvia is a genus of small birds in the "Old World warbler" family Sylviidae.

Sylvia

Biillyboy · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Sits inside
SylviidaePBDB
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 least 274 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 12 occurrences289–279 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–270 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.6–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences274.4 Mya11.7 ka289 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Sylvia 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

12 occurrences

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.

Found in

1 formation

Lekskaya Suite — 57.70°N, 57.80°E

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The named rock units Sylvia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sylvia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sylvia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Sylvia, 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

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Sylvia

Credit
Biillyboy
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itSylviidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scopoli 1769