Anthornis melanocephala
The Chatham Islands bellbird or kōmako is an extinct species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It was endemic to the Chatham Islands.
Charles Joseph Hullmandel · 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
- Chatham Island bellbirdPBDB
- Sits inside
- AnthornisPBDB
- 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.
2 occurrences of Anthornis melanocephala on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
2 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.
Anthornis melanocephala and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Anthornis melanocephala and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae2 sites
- Eudyptes2 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Megalurus rufescens2 sites
- Pachyptila turtur2 sites
- Pachyptila vittata2 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix2 sites
- Pterodroma axillaris2 sites
- Ardenna grisea1 site
- Coenocorypha chathamica1 site
- Coenocorypha pusilla1 site
- Cyanoramphus forbesi1 site
- Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae chathamensis1 site
- Eudyptula minor1 site
- Gallirallus dieffenbachii1 site
- Gallirallus modestus1 site
- Garrodia nereis1 site
- Larus dominicanus1 site
- Macronectes1 site
- Nestor chathamensis1 site
- Pelagodroma marina1 site
- Petroica traversi1 site
- Phalacrocorax featherstoni1 site
- Pterodroma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anthornis melanocephala, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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 Anthornis melanocephala
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anthornis melanocephala 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 itAnthornis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1843)