Columba oenas

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- stock dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- ColumbaPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
- Mass
- 16.7 gWikidata
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.
16 occurrences of Columba oenas 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
16 occurrences- Pleistocene88%
- Holocene13%
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.
Columba oenas and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Columba oenas and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
273 taxa- Corvus monedula11 sites
- Columba palumbus9 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus9 sites
- Turdus9 sites
- Falco tinnunculus8 sites
- Scolopax rusticola8 sites
- Tyto alba8 sites
- Athene cretensis7 sites
- Garrulus glandarius7 sites
- Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax7 sites
- Accipiter gentilis6 sites
- Otus scops6 sites
- Columba livia5 sites
- Corvus5 sites
- Emberiza5 sites
- Erithacus rubecula5 sites
- Falco eleonorae5 sites
- Turdus iliacus5 sites
- Aegolius funereus4 sites
- Buteo buteo4 sites
- Coturnix coturnix4 sites
- Fringilla4 sites
- Meridiocichla salotti4 sites
- Perdix perdix4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Columba oenas, 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
8 references- The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece8
- A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology)2
- The bird assemblage from the Middle Palaeolithic level I of Arbreda Cave: A taphonomic story1
- Avian remains from new Upper Pleistocene and Holocene sites in the Spanish Pyrenees1
- New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, Southern Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic cave site1
- Presence of the Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita (L.) during the Holocene in the Ardèche valley, southern France1
- The fauna of small vertebrates of the Middle Pleistocene at Petralona1
- La grotte de l'Observatoire à Monaco1
Each of the 16 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 Columba oenas
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- MPF
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Columba oenas · UMZC:Vertebrates:410.A
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itColumba through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758