Nesoenas cicur
The Mauritian turtle dove is an extinct species of the pigeon genus Nesoenas which was endemic to Mauritius. The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus collected in 2008 in southeastern Mauritius. It became extinct around 1730 because of overhunting, predation by introduced rats, and the deforestation of the island.
Julian P. Hume · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- Mauritian turtle dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- NesoenasPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
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.
4 occurrences of Nesoenas cicur 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
4 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.
Nesoenas cicur and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Nesoenas cicur and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Hypsipetes olivaceus3 sites
- Alectroenas nitidissimus2 sites
- Columba thiriouxi2 sites
- Cryptopsar ischyrhynchus2 sites
- Alexandrinus echo1 site
- Aphanapteryx bonasia1 site
- Circus maillardi1 site
- Foudia rubra1 site
- Lalage typica1 site
- Lophopsittacus bensoni1 site
- Lophopsittacus mauritianus1 site
- Nesoenas mayeri1 site
- Otus sauzieri1 site
- Pteropus1 site
- Turnix nigricollis1 site
- Zosterops chloronothos1 site
- Zosterops mauritianus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nesoenas cicur, 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 4 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 content1
Picture of Nesoenas cicur
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Julian P. Hume
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nesoenas cicur 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 itNesoenas through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hume 2011