Eupsittula canicularis
Eupsittula canicularis, also known as the orange-fronted parakeet, orange-fronted conure, half-moon conure or Petz's conure is a vulnerable species of birds in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found from western Mexico to Costa Rica.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- orange-fronted parakeetPBDB
- Sits inside
- EupsittulaPBDB
- Diet
- granivorePBDB, for Psittacidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Psittacidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Psittacidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Eupsittula canicularis 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
1 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.
Eupsittula canicularis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Eupsittula canicularis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Accipiter striatus1 site
- Accipitridae1 site
- Amazona1 site
- Amazona albifrons1 site
- Anas1 site
- Ara militaris1 site
- Ardea alba1 site
- Aulacorhynchus prasinus1 site
- Aythya affinis1 site
- Butorides virescens1 site
- Cairina moschata1 site
- Calidris minutilla1 site
- Cathartes aura1 site
- Charadrius semipalmatus1 site
- Claravis pretiosa1 site
- Colinus virginianus1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Columbina inca1 site
- Coragyps atratus1 site
- Crotophaga sulcirostris1 site
- Cyrtonyx ocellatus1 site
- Dendrocygna autumnalis1 site
- Egretta1 site
- Fulica americana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eupsittula canicularis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content2
Picture of Eupsittula canicularis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- derivative work: Snowmanradio ( talk ) OFPA.JPG : Cwood1 Charlene Wood
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itEupsittula through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)