Aplonis diluvialis
The Huahine starling is an extinct bird from the genus Aplonis within the starling family, Sturnidae. It was endemic to the island of Huahine, in the Society Islands of French Polynesia, and therefore had the easternmost distribution of all Aplonis species in the Pacific region.
No picture of Aplonis diluvialis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aplonis diluvialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Huahine starlingPBDB
- Sits inside
- AplonisPBDB
- 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.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aplonis diluvialis 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
1 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.
Aplonis diluvialis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Aplonis diluvialis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Acrocephalus caffer1 site
- Alopecoenas erythropterus1 site
- Anous minutus1 site
- Anous stolidus1 site
- Ardenna pacifica1 site
- Butorides striata1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Ducula aurorae1 site
- Ducula galeata1 site
- Egretta sacra1 site
- Fregata1 site
- Fregata ariel1 site
- Fregata minor1 site
- Gallicolumba nui1 site
- Gallirallus storrsolsoni1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Gygis alba1 site
- Larus utunui1 site
- Macropygia arevarevauupa1 site
- Numenius tahitiensis1 site
- Phaethon lepturus1 site
- Pluvialis dominica1 site
- Porphyrio mcnabi1 site
- Procellariidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aplonis diluvialis, 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 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Aplonis diluvialis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aplonis diluvialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aplonis diluvialis 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 itAplonis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steadman 1989