Acrocephalus taiti
The Henderson reed warbler, also known as the Henderson reed-warbler or the Henderson Island reed warbler, is a species of Old World warbler in the family Acrocephalidae. It is found only on Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
James Eaton · CC0 · 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
- Henderson Island reed warblerPBDB
- Sits inside
- AcrocephalusPBDB
- 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.
8 occurrences of Acrocephalus taiti 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
8 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.
Acrocephalus taiti and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Acrocephalus taiti and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Anous8 sites
- Gallicolumba leonpascoi8 sites
- Gygis alba8 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda8 sites
- Ptilinopus insularis8 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis8 sites
- Zapornia atra8 sites
- Fregata minor7 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa7 sites
- Pterodroma7 sites
- Ducula harrisoni6 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis6 sites
- Prosobonia sauli6 sites
- Anous ceruleus5 sites
- Puffinus5 sites
- Bountyphaps obsoleta4 sites
- Pterodroma nigripennis4 sites
- Sula dactylatra4 sites
- Vini stepheni4 sites
- Hirundo tahitica2 sites
- Onychoprion fuscatus2 sites
- Ardenna pacifica1 site
- Bulweria bulwerii1 site
- Diomedea epomophora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Acrocephalus taiti, 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
1 reference- The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis8
Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Acrocephalus taiti
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- James Eaton
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acrocephalus taiti was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAcrocephalus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ogilvie-Grant 1913