Piranga ludoviciana

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
- western tanagerPBDB
- Sits inside
- PirangaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 3.37 gWikidata
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.
4 occurrences of Piranga ludoviciana 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
4 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.
Piranga ludoviciana and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Piranga ludoviciana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Melospiza melodia4 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus3 sites
- Athene cunicularia3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Catharus guttatus3 sites
- Catharus ustulatus3 sites
- Cerorhinca monocerata3 sites
- Chondestes grammacus3 sites
- Eremophila alpestris3 sites
- Falco sparverius3 sites
- Fulica americana3 sites
- Haemorhous mexicanus3 sites
- Icterus bullockii3 sites
- Lanius ludovicianus3 sites
- Larus heermanni3 sites
- Larus occidentalis3 sites
- Oreoscoptes montanus3 sites
- Oreothlypis celata3 sites
- Passerculus sandwichensis3 sites
- Passerella iliaca3 sites
- Phalaropus lobatus3 sites
- Pheucticus melanocephalus3 sites
- Pipilo maculatus3 sites
- Ptychoramphus aleuticus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Piranga ludoviciana, 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
2 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
- Avian material from Rancho del Oro, a Pleistocene locality in San Diego County, California1
Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Piranga ludoviciana
- 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
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPiranga through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson 1811)