Alopecoenas xanthonurus
The white-throated ground dove is a species of ground dove in the genus Pampusana. It is classified as near-threatened.
Peter · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- white-throated ground-dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- AlopecoenasPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
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.
20 occurrences of Alopecoenas xanthonurus 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
20 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.
Alopecoenas xanthonurus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Alopecoenas xanthonurus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Aplonis opaca15 sites
- Squamata13 sites
- Porzana11 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla11 sites
- Pteropus10 sites
- Anous stolidus9 sites
- Passeriformes9 sites
- Gallirallus8 sites
- Gygis alba candida8 sites
- Rallidae8 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis7 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea7 sites
- Anous ceruleus7 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata7 sites
- Megapodius laperouse7 sites
- Rattus exulans7 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus7 sites
- Homo sapiens6 sites
- Phaethon lepturus6 sites
- Myzomela rubratra5 sites
- Pluvialis fulva5 sites
- Anous minutus4 sites
- Columbidae4 sites
- Gekkonidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Alopecoenas xanthonurus, 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
4 references- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands13
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands3
- The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands2
- Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia2
Each of the 20 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 Alopecoenas xanthonurus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Peter
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Alopecoenas xanthonurus 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.
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What may have been alongside itAlopecoenas through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Temminck 1823)