Mascarinus mascarin
The Mascarene parrot or mascarin is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Réunion in the western Indian Ocean. The taxonomic relationships of this species have been subject to debate; it has historically been grouped with either the Psittaculini parrots or the vasa parrots, with the latest genetic study favouring the former group.
John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912) · Public Domain · 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
- Mascarene parrotPBDB
- Sits inside
- MascarinusPBDB
- 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 Mascarinus mascarin 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.
Mascarinus mascarin and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Mascarinus mascarin and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Alopochen kervazoi3 sites
- Ardenna pacifica3 sites
- Otus grucheti3 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri3 sites
- Falco duboisi2 sites
- Fulica newtonii2 sites
- Nesoenas duboisi2 sites
- Phaethon lepturus2 sites
- Threskiornis solitarius2 sites
- Fregilupus varius1 site
- Numenius phaeopus1 site
- Nycticorax duboisi1 site
- Streptopelia picturata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mascarinus mascarin, 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 reference- The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans3
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Mascarinus mascarin
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mascarinus mascarin 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMascarinus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1771)