Petrochelidon fulva

The cave swallow is a medium-sized, squarish-tailed swallow belonging to the same genus as the more familiar and widespread cliff swallow of North America. The cave swallow, also native to the Americas, nests and roosts primarily in caves and sinkholes.

Petrochelidon fulva

Alan Schmierer · CC0 · 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
cave swallowPBDB
Sits inside
PetrochelidonPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Hirundinidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Hirundinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Hirundinidae

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.

Pleistocene — about 5 of 6 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 6 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

6 occurrences of Petrochelidon fulva 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

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.

Petrochelidon fulva and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Petrochelidon fulva and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Petrochelidon fulva, 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

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. 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 Petrochelidon fulva

Credit
Alan Schmierer
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Petrochelidon fulva 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vieillot 1808)