Ducula oceanica
The Micronesian imperial pigeon, also known as the Micronesian pigeon, and Belochel is a species of bird in the family Columbidae (doves). It is found in Palau, the Caroline Islands, the Marshall Islands and Nauru. Its habitats include montane forests, secondary forests, forests on beaches, and mangroves. It is threatened by hunting and deforestation, and the IUCN has assessed it as a near-threatened species.
thibaudaronson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- Micronesian imperial-pigeonPBDB
- Sits inside
- DuculaPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
- Mass
- 375 gWikidata
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.
4 occurrences of Ducula oceanica 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
4 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.
Ducula oceanica and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ducula oceanica and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Alopecoenas xanthonurus3 sites
- Aplonis opaca3 sites
- Megapodius laperouse3 sites
- Pteropus3 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla3 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis2 sites
- Anous ceruleus2 sites
- Anous minutus2 sites
- Anous stolidus2 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
- Gygis alba candida2 sites
- Phaethon lepturus2 sites
- Porzana2 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri2 sites
- Rattus2 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus2 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea1 site
- Cryptoblepharus poecilopleurus1 site
- Egretta sacra1 site
- Emoia sleveni1 site
- Fregata ariel1 site
- Fregata minor1 site
- Gallirallus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ducula oceanica, 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
4 references- The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands1
- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands1
- Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia1
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands1
Each of the 4 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 Ducula oceanica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- thibaudaronson
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ducula oceanica 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 itDucula through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Desmarest 1826)