Cyanocitta cristata

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Also called

blue jayPBDB

Sits inside

CyanocittaPBDB

Diet

omnivorePBDB, for Corvidae

Life habit

volantPBDB, for Corvidae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Corvidae

• Pleistocene99%
• Holocene1%

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.

Where Cyanocitta cristata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Colaptes auratus8 sites
• Ectopistes migratorius7 sites
• Falco sparverius7 sites
• Megascops asio7 sites
• Bonasa umbellus6 sites
• Colinus virginianus6 sites
• Meleagris gallopavo6 sites
• Odocoileus virginianus6 sites
• Picoides villosus6 sites
• Podilymbus podiceps6 sites
• Scalopus aquaticus6 sites
• Agelaius phoeniceus5 sites
• Anas crecca5 sites
• Glaucomys volans5 sites
• Melanerpes carolinus5 sites
• Microtus pennsylvanicus5 sites
• Microtus pinetorum5 sites
• Neotoma floridana5 sites
• Scolopax minor5 sites
• Spatula discors5 sites
• Accipiter striatus4 sites
• Amblystoma4 sites
• Anas platyrhynchos4 sites
• Aythya collaris4 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cyanocitta cristata, 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.

• Late Pleistocene birds from Kingston Saltpeter Cave, southern Appalachian Mountains, GeorgiaSteadman, 2005 · Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History · journal article1
• Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida PeninsulaEmslie, 1998 · Ornithological Monographs · serial monograph1
• A late Pleistocene avifauna from northwestern AlabamaParmalee, 1992 · Science Series, Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art · journal article1
• Quaternary vertebrate localities of Virginia and their avian and mammalian faunaEshelman and Grady, 1986 · Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Publication · journal article1
• Evidence of a Boreal Avifauna in Middle Tennessee during the Late PleistoceneParmalee and Klippel, 1982 · The Auk · journal article1
• The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of VirginiaGuilday et al., 1977 · Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History · journal article1
• The Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Reddick, FloridaGut and Ray, 1963 · Quaterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences · journal article1
• The Pleistocene local fauna of the Natural Chimneys, Augusta County, VirginiaGuilday, 1962 · Annals of Carnegie Museum · journal article1
• The Pleistocene avifauna of Arredondo, FloridaBrodkorb, 1959 · Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences · journal article1

Each of the 9 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.

What may have been alongside itCyanocitta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)