Oena capensis
Uncredited · 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- Also called
- Namaqua dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- OenaPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
- Mass
- 36 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Oena capensis 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene38%
- Holocene62%
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.
Oena capensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Oena capensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Tyto alba3 sites
- Anas2 sites
- Apus2 sites
- Athene superciliaris2 sites
- Buteo brachypterus2 sites
- Chalcomitra balfouri2 sites
- Chamaeleo monachus2 sites
- Coracopsis vasa2 sites
- Corvus albus2 sites
- Coua cristata2 sites
- Coua gigas2 sites
- Coua ruficeps2 sites
- Ditypophis vivax2 sites
- Emberiza2 sites
- Fulica cristata2 sites
- Haemodracon riebeckii2 sites
- Haemodracon trachyrhinus2 sites
- Hypsugo lanzai2 sites
- Lanius excubitor2 sites
- Milvus migrans aegyptius2 sites
- Mus domesticus2 sites
- Numida meleagris2 sites
- Oenanthe2 sites
- Otus rutilus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Oena capensis, 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- Holocene vertebrate assemblages provide the first evidence for the presence of the barn owl (Tytonidae, Tyto alba) on Socotra Island (Yemen)2
- Subfossil birds from a submerged cave in southwestern Madagascar1
- Bird fossils from Ankilitelo Cave: inference about Holocene environmental changes in southwestern Madagascar1
- Pleistocene bird fauna from Bir Tarfawi (Egyptian western desert)1
Each of the 5 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 content1
Picture of Oena capensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Oena capensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOena through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)