Turdus pallidus
The pale thrush is a passerine bird of the eastern Palearctic belonging to the genus Turdus in the thrush family Turdidae. It is closely related to the eye-browed thrush and grey-backed thrush.
Francesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 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- Also called
- pale thrushPBDB
- Sits inside
- TurdusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, frugivorePBDB, for Turdidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Turdidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Turdidae
- Mass
- 70 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.
5 occurrences of Turdus pallidus 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene80%
- Holocene20%
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.
Turdus pallidus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Turdus pallidus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Anatidae3 sites
- Buteo buteo3 sites
- Corvus macrorhynchos3 sites
- Hypsipetes amaurotis3 sites
- Passeriformes3 sites
- Scolopacidae3 sites
- Streptopelia orientalis3 sites
- Anas2 sites
- Anas crecca2 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos2 sites
- Aythya fuligula2 sites
- Chroicocephalus ridibundus2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Emberizidae2 sites
- Gallinago2 sites
- Hirundo rustica2 sites
- Lagopus2 sites
- Lagopus lagopus2 sites
- Lagopus muta2 sites
- Mareca penelope2 sites
- Milvus migrans2 sites
- Perisoreus infaustus2 sites
- Phalacrocorax capillatus2 sites
- Podiceps cristatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Turdus pallidus, 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- Birds of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene from the Palaeolithic Djuktai cave site of Yakutia, eastern Siberia2
- The Late Pleistocene fossil birds of the central and southern Ryukyu Islands, and their zoogeographical implications for the Recent avifauna of the archipelago2
- Birds around the Minatogawa Man: the Late Pleistocene avian fossil assemblage of the Minatogawa Fissure, southern part of Okinawa Island, Central Ryukyu Islands, Japan1
Each of the 5 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 Turdus pallidus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Francesco Veronesi from Italy
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turdus pallidus 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pale thrush”
- 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 itTurdus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gmelin 1789