Prunella collaris
The alpine accentor is a small passerine bird in the family Prunellidae, which is native to Eurasia and North Africa.

Paco Gómez from Castellón, Spain · 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
- alpine accentorPBDB
- Sits inside
- PrunellaPBDB
- 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 least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Prunella collaris 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
10 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.
Prunella collaris and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Prunella collaris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Turdus6 sites
- Falco tinnunculus5 sites
- Passeriformes5 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus5 sites
- Accipiter gentilis4 sites
- Athene cretensis4 sites
- Columba4 sites
- Columba oenas4 sites
- Columba palumbus4 sites
- Corvidae4 sites
- Corvus4 sites
- Corvus monedula4 sites
- Coturnix coturnix4 sites
- Galliformes4 sites
- Hirundo rustica4 sites
- Lyrurus tetrix4 sites
- Scolopax rusticola4 sites
- Tyto alba4 sites
- Aegolius funereus3 sites
- Buteo buteo3 sites
- Erithacus rubecula3 sites
- Falco3 sites
- Fringilla3 sites
- Garrulus glandarius3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Prunella collaris, 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- The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece4
- Late Pleistocene fossil birds from Buso Doppio del Broion Cave (North-Eastern Italy): implications for palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate3
- Avian fossil assemblages at the onset of the LGM in the eastern Alps: A palaecological contribution from the Rio Secco Cave (Italy)1
- Implications of the avian fauna for palaeoecology in the Early Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula1
- The fauna of small vertebrates of the Middle Pleistocene at Petralona1
Each of the 10 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 Prunella collaris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Paco Gómez from Castellón, Spain
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Prunella collaris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPrunella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scopoli 1769)