Columbina Spix

Nascimento, Rafael S. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2024, Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil, Zoologia (e 23079) 41, pp. 1-234 : 114-115

Columbina Spix

333. Columbina minuta (Linnaeus)

Quaternary – PI

Columbidae [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993a: 198.

Columbidae [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993b: 328.

Columbina minuta – Guérin et al. 1996: 84.

Columbina minata [sic] – Guérin et al. 2002: 136.

Guérin et al. (1996) reported this species from Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião. At least five adults and one young individual are present in the material .

334. Columbina cf. talpacoti (Temminck)

Quaternary – PI

Columbidae [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993a: 198.

Columbidae [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993b: 328.

cf. Columbina talpacoti – Guérin et al. 1996: 84.

cf. C. talpacoti – Guérin et al. 2002: 136.

Guérin et al. (1996) reported material comparable to this species from Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião. At least one adult individual is present in the material .

335. Columbina talpacoti (Temminck)

Quaternary – MG, RJ

Chamaepelia talpacoti [in part] – Winge 1887: 13.

Chamaepelia (et g. aff.) sp. 3 (fere certe): ut videtur: Ch. griseola vel Ch. (Columbula) campestris ; Ch. talpacoti ; Ch. (Scardafella) squamosa [in part] – Winge 1887: 39.

[ Chamaepelia ] Talpacoti – Goeldi 1894: 386.

Chamoepelia sp. (“cfr. griseola , campestris , talpacoti und Scardafella squamosa ”) [in part] – Lambrecht 1933: 769. Columbigallina talpacoti – Brodkorb 1971: 198. Columbigallina talpacoti [ Chamaepelia sp. ” [in part]] – Mones 1986: 93.

Columbina talpacoti – Cuello 1988: 51.

Columbina talpacoti – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 493.

The third set of small columbid bones established by Winge (1887) corresponds to Columbina talpacoti and is represented by two humeri and three ulnae from Lapa da Escrivânia V and a tibiotarsus from Lapa da Escrivânia XI.

Columbina talpacoti – Bueno 2007: 34.

Bueno (2007) mentioned this species among avian remains from sambaquis in the APA de Massambaba, coastal Rio de Janeiro .

336. Columbina squammata (Lesson)

Quaternary – MG

Chamaepelia (et g. aff.) sp. 3 (fere certe): ut videtur: Ch. griseola vel Ch. (Columbula) campestris ; Ch. talpacoti ; Ch. (Scardafella) squamosa [in part] – Winge 1887: 39.

Scardafella squamosa – Goeldi 1894: 386.

Chamoepelia sp. (“cfr. griseola , campestris , talpacoti und Scardafella squamosa ”) [in part] – Lambrecht 1933: 769. Scardafella squammata – Brodkorb 1971: 198.

Scardafella squammata [ Chamaepelia sp. ” [in part]] – Mones 1986: 93–94.

Scardafella squammata – Cuello 1988: 52.

Columbina squammata – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 493.

The fourth set of small columbid bones established by Winge (1887) from remains from Lapa da Escrivânia V comprises four humeri, a carpometacarpus, and a tibiotarsus. They correspond to Columbina squammata , only slightly smaller, but somewhat larger than Columbina talpacoti .

337. Columbina picui (Temminck)

Quaternary – PI

Columbidae [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993a: 198.

Columbidae [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993b: 328.

Columbina picui – Guérin et al. 1996: 84.

C. picui – Guérin et al. 2002: 136.

Guérin et al. (1996) reported this species from Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião. At least one adult individual is present in the material .

Cuculiformes Wagler

Cuculidae Leach 338. Cuculidae indet.

Early Holocene – GO

Cuculidae sp. indet. – Rosa 2004: 233.

Cuculidae indet [?] – Paulo 2009: 141.

Rosa (2004) reported a bone from the ParanaÍba phase square 14H of the GO-JA-01 rock shelter in Serranópolis, Goiás. The material is deposited in the IAP/Unisinos collection.

Crotophaginae Swainson