Nestor chathamensis
The Chatham kākā or Chatham Island kākā is an extinct parrot species previously found on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. The first individuals were thought to belong to the New Zealand kākā, but detailed examination of the subfossil bones showed that they actually belong to a separate endemic species. The species became extinct within the first 150 years of the arrival of the Polynesians around 1500, long before any European settlers. No skins or descriptions are available.
ProjectOWL · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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- Sits inside
- NestorPBDB
- 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.
2 occurrences of Nestor chathamensis 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
2 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.
Nestor chathamensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Nestor chathamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Coenocorypha chathamica2 sites
- Gallirallus dieffenbachii2 sites
- Gallirallus modestus2 sites
- Larus dominicanus2 sites
- Megalurus rufescens2 sites
- Pachyptila turtur2 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix2 sites
- Petroica traversi2 sites
- Pterodroma axillaris2 sites
- Tadorna2 sites
- Anas1 site
- Anas chathamica1 site
- Anthornis melanocephala1 site
- Anthornis melanura1 site
- Anthus novaeseelandiae1 site
- Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae1 site
- Coenocorypha pusilla1 site
- Cyanoramphus auriceps1 site
- Cyanoramphus forbesi1 site
- Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae1 site
- Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae chathamensis1 site
- Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi1 site
- Eudyptes1 site
- Eudyptula minor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nestor chathamensis, 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
1 reference- An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand2
Each of the 2 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 Nestor chathamensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- ProjectOWL
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nestor chathamensis 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 itNestor through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood et al. 2014