Zonotrichia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- sparrowPBDB
- Sits inside
- PasserellidaePBDB
- 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 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
23 occurrences of Zonotrichia 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
23 occurrences- Pleistocene99%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Zonotrichia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Zonotrichia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Zonotrichia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
563 taxa- Falco sparverius9 sites
- Melospiza melodia9 sites
- Colaptes auratus8 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus7 sites
- Eremophila alpestris7 sites
- Junco hyemalis7 sites
- Buteo jamaicensis6 sites
- Chondestes grammacus6 sites
- Corvus corax6 sites
- Passerculus sandwichensis6 sites
- Turdus migratorius6 sites
- Tyto alba6 sites
- Zenaida macroura6 sites
- Buteo5 sites
- Passerella iliaca5 sites
- Podiceps nigricollis5 sites
- Ptychoramphus aleuticus5 sites
- Anas crecca4 sites
- Athene cunicularia4 sites
- Branta canadensis4 sites
- Cepphus columba4 sites
- Charadrius vociferus4 sites
- Chendytes lawi4 sites
- Colinus virginianus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Zonotrichia, 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
11 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 Deposits8
- Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula5
- The early and middle Pleistocene avifauna from Porcupine Cave2
- A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, California1
- A catalogue of late Quaternary vertebrates from California: Part One, nonmarine lower vertebrate and avian taxa1
- The late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) avifauna of Little Box Elder Cave, Wyoming1
- Evidence of a Boreal Avifauna in Middle Tennessee during the Late Pleistocene1
- Zonotrichia robusta n.sp. (Aves, Passeriformes, Emberizidae) from middle Pleistocene of Buenos Aires Province1
- Fossil birds from the Dominican Republic1
- Notes on fossil and subfossil birds1
- Records of fringillids from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea1
Each of the 23 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 content2

Picture of Zonotrichia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itPasserellidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1832