Drepanoptila holosericea
The cloven-feathered dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. The cloven-feathered dove is endemic to New Caledonia where it is found in forest and Melaleuca savanna at altitudes up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft). This species was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Drepanoptila.
JJ Harrison · 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
- cloven-feathered dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- DrepanoptilaPBDB
- 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.
2 occurrences of Drepanoptila holosericea 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
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.
Drepanoptila holosericea and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Drepanoptila holosericea and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Accipiter efficax2 sites
- Aerodramus spodiopygius2 sites
- Caloenas canacorum2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Columba vitiensis2 sites
- Gallicolumba longitarsus2 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus2 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei2 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus2 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata2 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae2 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae2 sites
- Tyto alba2 sites
- Urodynamis taitensis2 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus1 site
- Accipiter haplochrous1 site
- Accipiter quartus1 site
- Aegotheles savesi1 site
- Alopecoenas stairi1 site
- Anas gracilis1 site
- Cacomantis flabelliformis1 site
- Chalcophaps indica1 site
- Charadrius bicinctus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Drepanoptila holosericea, 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 Caves1
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia1
Each 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. 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 content1
Picture of Drepanoptila holosericea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Drepanoptila holosericea 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 itDrepanoptila through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Temminck 1809)