Cyanolanius madagascarinus
The Madagascar blue vanga is a bird species in the family Vangidae. It is found in Madagascar, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
Attis1979 · 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
- blue vangaPBDB
- Sits inside
- CyanolaniusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 22 gWikidata
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 Cyanolanius madagascarinus 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
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.
Cyanolanius madagascarinus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cyanolanius madagascarinus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Acrantophis1 site
- Aldabrachelys1 site
- Apus1 site
- Archaeolemur majori1 site
- Artamella viridis1 site
- Bos indicus1 site
- Canis familiaris1 site
- Cheirogaleus medius1 site
- Coracopsis vasa1 site
- Corvus albus1 site
- Coua cristata1 site
- Coua cursor1 site
- Crocodylus niloticus1 site
- Echinops telfairi1 site
- Eidolon1 site
- Eliurus1 site
- Eremopterix hova1 site
- Falco newtoni1 site
- Foudia madagascariensis1 site
- Furcifer1 site
- Gallinula chloropus1 site
- Geochelone radiata1 site
- Geogale aurita1 site
- Hadropithecus stenognathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cyanolanius madagascarinus, 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 content1
Picture of Cyanolanius madagascarinus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Attis1979
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyanolanius madagascarinus 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 itCyanolanius through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)