Todus angustirostris
The narrow-billed tody is a species of bird in the family Todidae. It is one of two Todus species endemic to Hispaniola, a Caribbean island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

JeffreyGammon · CC BY 4.0 · 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- Also called
- narrow-billed todyPBDB
- Sits inside
- TodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 7.5 gWikidata
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.
2 occurrences of Todus angustirostris 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene46%
- Holocene55%
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.
Todus angustirostris and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Todus angustirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Coccyzus longirostris2 sites
- Columbina passerina2 sites
- Geotrygon2 sites
- Melanerpes striatus2 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala2 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa2 sites
- Priotelus roseigaster2 sites
- Siphonorhis brewsteri2 sites
- Accipiter striatus1 site
- Amazona ventralis1 site
- Anthracothorax dominicus1 site
- Asio1 site
- Calyptophilus frugivorus1 site
- Chlorostilbon swainsonii1 site
- Coccyzus rufigularis1 site
- Contopus1 site
- Cypseloides niger1 site
- Dulus dominicus1 site
- Hapalocrex flaviventer1 site
- Ionornis martinica1 site
- Loxia megaplaga1 site
- Loxigilla violacea1 site
- Mellisuga minima1 site
- Nesoctites micromegas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Todus angustirostris, 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
2 references- A late-Holocene bird community from Hispaniola: Refining the chronology of vertebrate extinction in the West Indies1
- Fossil birds from the Dominican Republic1
Each of the 2 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 Todus angustirostris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JeffreyGammon
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Todus angustirostris 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 itTodus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lafresnaye 1851