Saurothera merlini
No picture of Saurothera merlini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Saurothera merlini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- great lizard-cuckooPBDB
- Sits inside
- CoccyzusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Cuculidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Cuculidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Cuculidae
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.
5 occurrences of Saurothera merlini 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene55%
- Holocene45%
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.
Saurothera merlini and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Saurothera merlini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Corvus nasicus5 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala5 sites
- Psittacus leucocephalus4 sites
- Zenaida aurita4 sites
- Athene cunicularia3 sites
- Burhinus nanus3 sites
- Columbidae3 sites
- Corvus palmarum3 sites
- Geotrygon chrysia3 sites
- Melanerpes superciliaris3 sites
- Mimus gundlachii3 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa3 sites
- Tyto pollens3 sites
- Anolis2 sites
- Caracara creightoni2 sites
- Chlorostilbon ricordii2 sites
- Colaptes2 sites
- Cubophis vudii2 sites
- Cyclura2 sites
- Falco sparverius2 sites
- Gallinago2 sites
- Geocapromys2 sites
- Myiarchus sagrae2 sites
- Osteopilus septentrionalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Saurothera merlini, 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- Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas2
- The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas1
- Holocene vertebrates from a dry cave on Eleuthera Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas1
- The Cuban Crocodile, Crocodylus rhombifer, from Late Quaternary Fossil Deposits on Grand Cayman1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Saurothera merlini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Saurothera merlini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saurothera merlini 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCoccyzus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1839)