Estrildidae
Estrildidae, or estrildid finches, is a family of small seed-eating passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They comprise species commonly known as munias, mannikins, firefinches, parrotfinches and waxbills.
fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Canon 400mm f/5.6 L · GFDL 1.2 · 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- Sits inside
- PasseriformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
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.
7 occurrences of Estrildidae 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene27%
- Holocene73%
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.
Estrildidae and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Estrildidae and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Aplonis opaca4 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata4 sites
- Erythrura4 sites
- Myzomela rubratra4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis3 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus3 sites
- Pteropus3 sites
- Rattus3 sites
- Varanus3 sites
- Agamidae2 sites
- Amphibia2 sites
- Antechinus flavipes2 sites
- Artamidae2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Bettongia lesueur2 sites
- Cercartetus lepidus2 sites
- Cercartetus nanus2 sites
- Conilurus2 sites
- Dasyurus2 sites
- Dasyurus viverrinus2 sites
- Egernia2 sites
- Gallicolumba2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Estrildidae, 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
5 references- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia2
- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands2
- The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands1
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands1
- The fossil avian assemblage from Weekes Cave (N-15), Nullarbor Plain, South Australia: corrections, additions and reinterpretation1
Each of the 7 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 Estrildidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Canon 400mm f/5.6 L
- Licence
- GFDL 1.2
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Estrildidae 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Estrildidae”
- 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 itPasseriformes through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Illiger 1811