Lanius ludovicianus
Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- loggerhead shrikePBDB
- Sits inside
- LaniusPBDB
- 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 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Lanius ludovicianus 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Lanius ludovicianus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lanius ludovicianus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
298 taxa- Buteo jamaicensis6 sites
- Falco sparverius6 sites
- Sturnella neglecta6 sites
- Athene cunicularia5 sites
- Charadrius vociferus5 sites
- Corvus corax5 sites
- Eremophila alpestris5 sites
- Oreoscoptes montanus5 sites
- Turdus migratorius5 sites
- Zenaida macroura5 sites
- Asio flammeus4 sites
- Branta canadensis4 sites
- Ectopistes migratorius4 sites
- Podilymbus podiceps4 sites
- Rissa tridactyla4 sites
- Salpinctes obsoletus4 sites
- Tyto alba4 sites
- Accipiter cooperii3 sites
- Aegolius acadicus3 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus3 sites
- Antigone canadensis3 sites
- Aquila chrysaetos3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Bubo virginianus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Lanius ludovicianus, 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- Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits3
- The late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) avifauna of Little Box Elder Cave, Wyoming1
- A comparison of avian assemblages from individual pits at Rancho La Brea, California1
- The Pleistocene avifauna of Arredondo, Florida1
- The fossil Birds of California1
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 content2
Picture of Lanius ludovicianus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLanius through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1766