Artamidae
Artamidae is a family of passerine birds found in Australia, the Indo-Pacific region, and Southern Asia. It includes 24 extant species in six genera and three subfamilies: Peltopsinae, Artaminae and Cracticinae. Artamids used to be monotypic, containing only the woodswallows, but it was expanded to include the family Cracticidae in 1994. Some authors, however, still treat the two as separate families. Some species in this family are known for their beautiful song. Their feeding habits vary from nectar sucking (woodswallows) to predation on small birds.
Brett Donald · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
- woodswallowPBDB
- Sits inside
- PasseriformesPBDB
- 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 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Artamidae 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene48%
- Holocene52%
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.
Artamidae and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Artamidae and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Estrildidae3 sites
- Agamidae2 sites
- Amphibia2 sites
- Antechinus flavipes2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Bettongia lesueur2 sites
- Cercartetus lepidus2 sites
- Cercartetus nanus2 sites
- Conilurus2 sites
- Dasyurus2 sites
- Dasyurus viverrinus2 sites
- Egernia2 sites
- Lagorchestes2 sites
- Macropus2 sites
- Macropus (Macropus) fuliginosus2 sites
- Macropus (Macropus) giganteus2 sites
- Macropus rufogriseus2 sites
- Mastacomys2 sites
- Miniopterus2 sites
- Ningaui yvonnae2 sites
- Notechis2 sites
- Notomys2 sites
- Perameles gunnii2 sites
- Petaurus breviceps2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Artamidae, 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- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia2
- Holocene avian assemblage from Skull Cave (AU-8), south-western Western Australia1
- The fossil avian assemblage from Weekes Cave (N-15), Nullarbor Plain, South Australia: corrections, additions and reinterpretation1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Artamidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Brett Donald
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Artamidae 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, “Artamidae”
- 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 itPasseriformes through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vigors 1825