Tyto pollens
Tyto pollens is an extinct giant owl which lived in the Bahamas during the last Ice Age.
Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · 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 barn owlPBDB
- Sits inside
- TytoPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Strigiformes
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Strigiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Strigiformes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Strigiformes
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.
4 occurrences of Tyto pollens on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene93%
- Holocene7%
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.
Tyto pollens and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tyto pollens and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Athene cunicularia4 sites
- Corvus nasicus4 sites
- Geotrygon chrysia4 sites
- Melanerpes superciliaris4 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa4 sites
- Burhinus nanus3 sites
- Colaptes3 sites
- Columbidae3 sites
- Corvus palmarum3 sites
- Gallinago3 sites
- Mimus gundlachii3 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala3 sites
- Psittacus leucocephalus3 sites
- Saurothera merlini3 sites
- Turdus plumbeus3 sites
- Zenaida aurita3 sites
- Accipiter striatus velox2 sites
- Buteo quadratus2 sites
- Caracara creightoni2 sites
- Chlorostilbon ricordii2 sites
- Falco sparverius2 sites
- Myiarchus sagrae2 sites
- Porzana carolina2 sites
- Spindalis zena2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tyto pollens, 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
3 references- Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas2
- Pleistocene birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas1
- Bird remains from cave deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas1
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. 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 Tyto pollens
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tyto pollens 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 itTyto through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wetmore 1937