Monarcha takatsukasae
The Tinian monarch is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. It is endemic to the Northern Mariana Islands.

Devonpike at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0 · 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
- Tinian monarchPBDB
- Sits inside
- MonarchaPBDB
- 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.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Monarcha takatsukasae 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
1 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.
Monarcha takatsukasae and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Monarcha takatsukasae and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Aerodramus vanikorensis1 site
- Emballonura semicaudata1 site
- Emoia sp.1 site
- Gekkonidae1 site
- Lepidodactylus lugubris1 site
- Nactus pelagicus1 site
- Perochirus ateles1 site
- Porzana1 site
- Ramphotyphlops sp.1 site
- Zosteropidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Monarcha takatsukasae, 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 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Monarcha takatsukasae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Devonpike at English Wikipedia
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Monarcha takatsukasae 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 itMonarcha through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yamashina 1931)