Tyrannus dominicensis

The gray kingbird or grey kingbird, also known as pitirre, petchary or white-breasted kingbird, is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatchers family Tyrannidae. The species was first described on the island of Hispaniola, then called Santo Domingo, thus the dominicensis name.

Tyrannus dominicensis

Fleiwerks · CC BY-SA 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
gray kingbirdPBDB
Sits inside
TyrannusPBDB
Diet
insectivore, frugivorePBDB, for Tyrannidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Tyrannidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Tyrannidae
Mass
43.8 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.

Pleistocene — about 7 of 9 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 9 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence21 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

9 occurrences of Tyrannus dominicensis 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

9 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.

Tyrannus dominicensis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tyrannus dominicensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

279 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Tyrannus dominicensis, 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 9 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 Tyrannus dominicensis

Credit
Fleiwerks
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Tyrannus dominicensis · nhmuk:zoo:1964.61.191

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTyrannus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1788)