Chalcophaps indica
The emerald dove or common emerald dove, also called Asian emerald dove and grey-capped emerald dove, is a widespread resident breeding pigeon native to the tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The dove is also known by the names of green dove and green-winged pigeon. The common emerald dove is the state bird of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Pacific emerald dove and Stephan's emerald dove were both considered conspecific.
Jason Thompson · CC BY 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
- Asian emerald dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- ChalcophapsPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Chalcophaps indica 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.
Chalcophaps indica and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Chalcophaps indica and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Columba vitiensis3 sites
- Ducula goliath3 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis3 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Ducula pacifica2 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus2 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis2 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Passeriformes2 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei2 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus2 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata2 sites
- Ptilinopus greyi2 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae2 sites
- Todiramphus sanctus2 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae2 sites
- Tyto alba2 sites
- Accipiter efficax1 site
- Accipiter haplochrous1 site
- Aegotheles savesi1 site
- Aerodramus spodiopygius1 site
- Alopecoenas1 site
- Alopecoenas stairi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chalcophaps indica, 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
3 references- Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, including a new genus and species of megapode1
- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves1
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia1
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 Chalcophaps indica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jason Thompson
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- 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
- Chalcophaps indica · FMNH:Birds:478749
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 itChalcophaps through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)