Gallinula hodgenorum
The New Zealand giant crake or Hodgens’ Waterhen is an extinct rail species from New Zealand. Its name commemorates J. and R. Hodgen who were owners of the Pyramid Valley swamp where the holotype was discovered. It reached a weight of 280 g and its wings were so reduced that it was unable to fly. It occupied a wide range of habitats, including open forest and grassland along riverbanks.
No picture of Gallinula hodgenorum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gallinula hodgenorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Hodgen's railPBDB
- Sits inside
- GallinulaPBDB
- 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 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Gallinula hodgenorum on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
8 occurrences- Pleistocene13%
- Holocene88%
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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Gallinula hodgenorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gallinula hodgenorum and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Gallinula hodgenorum and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
149 taxa- Coturnix novaezelandiae7 sites
- Cyanoramphus6 sites
- Gallirallus australis6 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae6 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae6 sites
- Sceloglaux albifacies6 sites
- Tadorna variegata6 sites
- Turnagra capensis6 sites
- Callaeas cinereus5 sites
- Chenonetta finschi5 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix5 sites
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae4 sites
- Anas chlorotis4 sites
- Anthornis melanura4 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Apteryx australis4 sites
- Aptornis defossor4 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica4 sites
- Corvus moriorum4 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides4 sites
- Falco novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Fulica prisca4 sites
- Harpagornis moorei4 sites
- Nestor meridionalis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Gallinula hodgenorum, 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- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand5
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand2
- Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Gallinula hodgenorum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gallinula hodgenorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gallinula hodgenorum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itGallinula through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scarlett 1955)