Mimus gundlachii
The Bahama mockingbird is a species of bird in the family Mimidae. It is found in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and is a vagrant to Florida.
Laura Gooch · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- Bahama mockingbirdPBDB
- Sits inside
- MimusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Mimidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Mimidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mimidae
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Mimus gundlachii 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene76%
- Holocene24%
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.
Mimus gundlachii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mimus gundlachii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Corvus nasicus4 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala4 sites
- Psittacus leucocephalus4 sites
- Zenaida aurita4 sites
- Anolis3 sites
- Anolis sagrei3 sites
- Athene cunicularia3 sites
- Burhinus nanus3 sites
- Coereba flaveola3 sites
- Columbidae3 sites
- Corvus palmarum3 sites
- Cyclura3 sites
- Geotrygon chrysia3 sites
- Melanerpes superciliaris3 sites
- Osteopilus septentrionalis3 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa3 sites
- Porzana carolina3 sites
- Saurothera merlini3 sites
- Tyto alba3 sites
- Tyto pollens3 sites
- Caracara creightoni2 sites
- Chlorostilbon ricordii2 sites
- Coccyzus minor2 sites
- Colaptes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mimus gundlachii, 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
4 references- Studies on Fossil and Extant Vertebrates from San Salvador (Watling's) Island, Bahamas2
- Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas2
- Pleistocene birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas1
- Bird remains from the West Indies1
Each of the 6 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 content2
Picture of Mimus gundlachii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Laura Gooch
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Mimus gundlachii · rom:birds:111017
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMimus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cabanis 1855