Corvus leucognaphalus
The white-necked crow is the largest of the four Caribbean corvids. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola ; it was formerly also extant on Puerto Rico and Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands, but has been extirpated from both islands due to considerable forest clearance and hunting for meat.
ZankaM · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- white-necked crowPBDB
- Sits inside
- CorvusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Corvidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Corvidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Corvidae
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 Corvus leucognaphalus 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.
Corvus leucognaphalus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Corvus leucognaphalus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Nesotrochis debooyi3 sites
- Ionornis martinica2 sites
- Nyctanassa violacea2 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa2 sites
- Pelecanus occidentalis2 sites
- Phoenicopterus ruber2 sites
- Sula sula2 sites
- Thalasseus maximus2 sites
- Zenaida aurita zenaida2 sites
- Anas bahamensis1 site
- Anous stolidus1 site
- Anser1 site
- Ara autochthones1 site
- Ardea herodias1 site
- Buteo jamaicensis1 site
- Buteo platypterus1 site
- Corvus pumilis1 site
- Dendrocygna arborea1 site
- Dendrocygna autumnalis1 site
- Eudocimus albus1 site
- Gallinula chloropus1 site
- Geotrygon larva1 site
- Geotrygon montana1 site
- Mareca americana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Corvus leucognaphalus, 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- Bird remains from the West Indies1
- Ancient records of birds from the island of St. Croix with observations on extinct and living birds of Puerto Rico1
- Bones of birds collected by Theodoor de Booy from kitchen midden deposits in the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix1
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. 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 Corvus leucognaphalus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- ZankaM
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Corvus leucognaphalus 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 itCorvus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daudin 1900