Ducula pacifica
The Pacific imperial pigeon, Pacific pigeon, Pacific fruit pigeon or lupe is a widespread pigeon species in the family Columbidae. It is found in American Samoa, the Cook Islands, the smaller islands of eastern Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, the smaller satellite islands of Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands.
Charles J. Sharp · 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
- Pacific 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
- 395 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.
26 occurrences of Ducula pacifica 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
26 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 pacifica and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ducula pacifica and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Gallus gallus14 sites
- Anous stolidus8 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis8 sites
- Phaethon lepturus8 sites
- Columbidae7 sites
- Megapodius alimentum6 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus6 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis6 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi5 sites
- Aplonis tabuensis5 sites
- Ardenna pacifica5 sites
- Didunculus placopedetes5 sites
- Eclectus infectus5 sites
- Porphyrio porphyrio5 sites
- Aerodramus spodiopygius4 sites
- Anous minutus4 sites
- Ducula shutleri4 sites
- Megapodius4 sites
- Megapodius pritchardii4 sites
- Tyto alba4 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus3 sites
- Cacomantis flabelliformis3 sites
- Columba vitiensis3 sites
- Ducula goliath3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Ducula pacifica, 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
9 references- Fossil and archaeological avifauna of Niue Island, Pacific Ocean6
- Prehistoric avifaunas from the Kingdom of Tonga5
- Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands5
- A new extinct species of giant pigeon (Columbidae: Ducula) from archeological deposits on Wallis (Uvea) Island, South Pacific3
- Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, including a new genus and species of megapode2
- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves2
- Prehistoric butchery and consumption of birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, south Pacific1
- Biogeography of Tongan birds before and after human impact1
- New species and records of birds (Aves: Megapodiidae, Columbidae) from an archeological site on Lifuka, Tonga1
Each of the 26 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 Ducula pacifica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- 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
- Ducula pacifica · UMZC:Vertebrates:409.B
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. (Gmelin 1789)