Catharus guttatus
The hermit thrush is a medium-sized North American thrush.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- hermit thrushPBDB
- Sits inside
- CatharusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, frugivorePBDB, for Turdidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Turdidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Turdidae
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 Catharus guttatus 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene98%
- Holocene2%
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.
Catharus guttatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Catharus guttatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
178 taxa- Turdus migratorius4 sites
- Athene cunicularia3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Catharus ustulatus3 sites
- Cerorhinca monocerata3 sites
- Chondestes grammacus3 sites
- Colaptes auratus3 sites
- Eremophila alpestris3 sites
- Falco sparverius3 sites
- Haemorhous mexicanus3 sites
- Icterus bullockii3 sites
- Lanius ludovicianus3 sites
- Larus heermanni3 sites
- Larus occidentalis3 sites
- Melospiza melodia3 sites
- Oreoscoptes montanus3 sites
- Oreothlypis celata3 sites
- Passerculus sandwichensis3 sites
- Passerella iliaca3 sites
- Pheucticus melanocephalus3 sites
- Pipilo maculatus3 sites
- Piranga ludoviciana3 sites
- Ptychoramphus aleuticus3 sites
- Rissa tridactyla3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Catharus guttatus, 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- Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits3
- The Late Wisconsinan vertebrate fauna from Deadman Cave, southern Arizona1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Catharus guttatus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Rhododendrites
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Catharus guttatus 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.
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What may have been alongside itCatharus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pallas 1811)