Megapodius molistructor
The pile-builder megapode is an extinct species of megapode. The subfossil remains were found by Jean-Christophe Balouet and Storrs L. Olson in the Pindai Caves of New Caledonia. Its remains have also been found on Tonga.
No picture of Megapodius molistructor 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 Megapodius molistructor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- pile-builder megapodePBDB
- Sits inside
- MegapodiusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Galliformes
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Galliformes
- 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.
6 occurrences of Megapodius molistructor 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
6 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.
Megapodius molistructor and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Megapodius molistructor and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Gallirallus lafresnayanus4 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei4 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae4 sites
- Accipiter efficax3 sites
- Mekosuchus inexpectatus3 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus3 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae3 sites
- Tyto alba3 sites
- Aegotheles savesi2 sites
- Anas gracilis2 sites
- Aplonis tabuensis2 sites
- Caloenas canacorum2 sites
- Collocalia2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Columba vitiensis2 sites
- Ducula2 sites
- Ducula david2 sites
- Ducula pacifica2 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis2 sites
- Megapodius alimentum2 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Rhynochetos2 sites
- Rhynochetos orarius2 sites
- Tyto letocarti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Megapodius molistructor, 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- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves2
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia2
- Prehistoric butchery and consumption of birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, south Pacific1
- New species and records of birds (Aves: Megapodiidae, Columbidae) from an archeological site on Lifuka, Tonga1
Each of the 6 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 Megapodius molistructor 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 Megapodius molistructor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megapodius molistructor 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 itMegapodius through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Balouet and Olson 1989