Campephilus principalis
The ivory-billed woodpecker is a woodpecker native to the Southern United States and Cuba. Habitat destruction and hunting have reduced populations so severely that the last universally accepted sighting in the United States was in 1944, and the last universally accepted sighting in Cuba was in 1987.
Arthur A. Allen · Public Domain · 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
- ivory-billed woodpeckerPBDB
- Sits inside
- CampephilusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Picidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Picidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Picidae
- Mass
- 13 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Campephilus principalis 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
3 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Campephilus principalis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Campephilus principalis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Corvus corax2 sites
- Ectopistes migratorius2 sites
- Tympanuchus cupido2 sites
- Antigone canadensis1 site
- Aquila chrysaetos1 site
- Colaptes1 site
- Conuropsis carolinensis1 site
- Cygnus buccinator1 site
- Cygnus columbianus1 site
- Dryocopus pileatus1 site
- Elanoides forficatus1 site
- Haliaeetus leucocephalus1 site
- Numenius americanus1 site
- Pelecanus erythrorhynchos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Campephilus principalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Prehistoric occurrence of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), Muskingum County, Ohio1
- Remains of rare and extinct birds from Illinois Indian sites1
- Evidence for the former occurrence of the ivory-billed woodpecker in Ohio1
Each of the 3 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 Campephilus principalis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Arthur A. Allen
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Campephilus principalis 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 itCampephilus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)