Zosterops conspicillatus
The bridled white-eye is a species of white-eye native to the Mariana Islands and formerly Guam. The species' natural habitat is tropical forests, shrublands and urban areas.
Heinrich von Kittlitz · Public Domain · 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
- bridled white-eyePBDB
- Sits inside
- ZosteropsPBDB
- 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 most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Zosterops conspicillatus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
9 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Zosterops conspicillatus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Zosterops conspicillatus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Alopecoenas xanthonurus7 sites
- Aplonis opaca7 sites
- Passeriformes7 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla7 sites
- Squamata7 sites
- Porzana6 sites
- Pteropus6 sites
- Gallirallus5 sites
- Megapodius laperouse5 sites
- Rallidae5 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis4 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata4 sites
- Gygis alba candida4 sites
- Serpentes4 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea3 sites
- Anous ceruleus3 sites
- Anous stolidus3 sites
- Myzomela rubratra3 sites
- Phaethon lepturus3 sites
- Pluvialis fulva3 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri3 sites
- Rattus exulans3 sites
- Cleptornis marchei2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Zosterops conspicillatus, 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- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands8
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands1
Each of the 9 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Zosterops conspicillatus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Heinrich von Kittlitz
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Zosterops conspicillatus 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 itZosterops through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kittlitz 1833)