Cacomantis flabelliformis
The fan-tailed cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- fan-tailed cuckooPBDB
- Sits inside
- CacomantisPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Cuculidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Cuculidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Cuculidae
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.
3 occurrences of Cacomantis flabelliformis 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
3 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.
Cacomantis flabelliformis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cacomantis flabelliformis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Alopecoenas stairi3 sites
- Columbidae3 sites
- Ducula pacifica3 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus3 sites
- Accipiter efficax2 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Accipiter haplochrous2 sites
- Aegotheles savesi2 sites
- Charmosyna diadema2 sites
- Chrysococcyx lucidus layardi2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Columba vitiensis2 sites
- Coturnix pectoralis2 sites
- Cyanoramphus saisseti2 sites
- Ducula goliath2 sites
- Eunymphicus cornutus2 sites
- Eurostopodus exul2 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus2 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis swindellsi2 sites
- Haliastur sphenurus2 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Pandion haliaetus2 sites
- Passeriformes2 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cacomantis flabelliformis, 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 Caves2
- Prehistoric avifaunas from the Kingdom of Tonga1
Each of the 3 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 content2
Picture of Cacomantis flabelliformis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Cacomantis flabelliformis · NHMUK:ZOO:S/1964.1.49
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 itCacomantis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Latham 1801)