Gallirallus roletti
The Tahuata rail is an extinct species of flightless bird in the Rallidae, or rail family.
No picture of Gallirallus roletti 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 Gallirallus roletti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Tahuata railPBDB
- Sits inside
- GallirallusPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Gallirallus roletti 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
3 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.
Gallirallus roletti and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Gallirallus roletti and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Gallus gallus3 sites
- Porphyrio paepae3 sites
- Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii2 sites
- Alopecoenas rubescens1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Ducula galeata1 site
- Papasula abbotti1 site
- Rallidae1 site
- Todiramphus godeffroyi1 site
- Vini1 site
- Vini sinotoi1 site
- Vini ultramarina1 site
- Vini vidivici1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gallirallus roletti, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Gallirallus roletti 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 Gallirallus roletti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gallirallus roletti 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.
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What may have been alongside itGallirallus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirchman and Steadman 2007