Hypsipetes olivaceus
The Mauritius bulbul, is a songbird belonging to the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is endemic to Mauritius.
Josh Noseworthy · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- Mauritius bulbulPBDB
- Sits inside
- HypsipetesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 74 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.
5 occurrences of Hypsipetes olivaceus 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
5 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.
Hypsipetes olivaceus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Hypsipetes olivaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Alectroenas nitidissimus3 sites
- Nesoenas cicur3 sites
- Otus sauzieri3 sites
- Aphanapteryx bonasia2 sites
- Circus maillardi2 sites
- Columba thiriouxi2 sites
- Cryptopsar ischyrhynchus2 sites
- Foudia rubra2 sites
- Lalage typica2 sites
- Lophopsittacus bensoni2 sites
- Lophopsittacus mauritianus2 sites
- Nesoenas mayeri2 sites
- Pteropus2 sites
- Zosterops chloronothos2 sites
- Zosterops mauritianus2 sites
- Alexandrinus echo1 site
- Allopeas1 site
- Bulinus1 site
- Cyclotopsis1 site
- Cylindraspis inepta1 site
- Cylindraspis triserrata1 site
- Fulica newtonii1 site
- Gyraulus1 site
- Leiolopisma mauritiana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hypsipetes olivaceus, 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- A synopsis of the pre-human avifauna of the Mascarene Islands2
- A new subfossil bulbul (Aves: Passerines: Pycnonotidae) from Rodrigues Island, Mascarenes, south-western Indian Ocean1
- Systematics, morphology, and ecological history of the Mascarene starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) with the description of a new genus and species from Mauritius1
- Mid-Holocene vertebrate bone Concentration-Lagerstätte on oceanic island Mauritius provides a window into the ecosystem of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus)1
Each of the 5 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 Hypsipetes olivaceus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Josh Noseworthy
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hypsipetes olivaceus 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 itHypsipetes through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jardine and Selby 1837