Erythrura
Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- parrotfinchPBDB
- Sits inside
- EstrildidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
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 Erythrura 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.
Erythrura and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Erythrura and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Aplonis opaca4 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata4 sites
- Myzomela rubratra4 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis3 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus3 sites
- Passeriformes3 sites
- Pteropus3 sites
- Varanus3 sites
- Gallicolumba2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
- Megapodius laperouse2 sites
- Myiagra freycineti2 sites
- Phaethon lepturus2 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla2 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri2 sites
- Rattus exulans2 sites
- Squamata2 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus2 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea1 site
- Anous ceruleus1 site
- Cleptornis marchei1 site
- Emoia sleveni1 site
- Emoia sp.1 site
- Gehyra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Erythrura, 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- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands2
- The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands1
- 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 content2
Picture of Erythrura
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Erythrura gouldiae · l-jz:JZ:50
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEstrildidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1837