Aegotheles savesi
The New Caledonian owlet-nightjar, also known as the enigmatic owlet-nightjar, is a large owlet-nightjar with vermiculated grey-brown and black plumage. It has a long, slightly rounded tail, short, rounded wings, and long, stout legs. Its voice is unknown, but other owlet-nightjar species make churring and whistling sounds. It is the second-largest known owlet-nightjar, much larger than the Australian owlet-nightjar.
Joseph Smit · 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
- New Caledonian owlet-nightjarPBDB
- Sits inside
- AegothelesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Aegothelidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Aegothelidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Aegothelidae
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.
4 occurrences of Aegotheles savesi 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
4 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.
Aegotheles savesi and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Aegotheles savesi and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Gallirallus lafresnayanus4 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae4 sites
- Tyto letocarti4 sites
- Accipiter efficax3 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei3 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus3 sites
- Rhynochetos3 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae3 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis3 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Accipiter haplochrous2 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi2 sites
- Cacomantis flabelliformis2 sites
- Caloenas canacorum2 sites
- Charmosyna diadema2 sites
- Chrysococcyx lucidus layardi2 sites
- Coenocorypha2 sites
- Collocalia2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Columba vitiensis2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Coturnix pectoralis2 sites
- Cyanoramphus saisseti2 sites
- Ducula goliath2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aegotheles savesi, 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- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves3
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia1
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 Aegotheles savesi
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Joseph Smit
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aegotheles savesi 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 itAegotheles through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Layard and Layard 1881