Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 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.

Also called

tuiPBDB

Sits inside

ProsthemaderaPBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria

Life habit

ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

• Pleistocene17%
• Holocene83%

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.

Where Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene. Draw the map

• Cyanoramphus16 sites
• Coturnix novaezelandiae13 sites
• Gallirallus australis11 sites
• Rattus exulans10 sites
• Anthus novaeseelandiae9 sites
• Callaeas cinereus9 sites
• Coenocorypha aucklandica9 sites
• Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae9 sites
• Rhipidura fuliginosa9 sites
• Turnagra capensis9 sites
• Anthornis melanura8 sites
• Petroica australis8 sites
• Tadorna variegata8 sites
• Chenonetta finschi7 sites
• Hoplodactylus maculatus7 sites
• Pelecanoides urinatrix7 sites
• Aegotheles novaezealandiae6 sites
• Anas chlorotis6 sites
• Eudyptula minor6 sites
• Gallinula hodgenorum6 sites
• Mystacina robusta6 sites
• Ninox novaeseelandiae6 sites
• Philesturnus carunculatus6 sites
• Sceloglaux albifacies6 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, 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.

• Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New ZealandWorthy, 1997 · Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · journal article10
• A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New ZealandWorthy, 1998 · Records of the Canterbury Museum · journal article3
• Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New ZealandWorthy and Grant-Mackie, 2003 · Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · journal article2
• The history of the Chatham Islands' bird fauna of the last 7000 years - a chronicle of change and extinctionMillener, 1999 · Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C, 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology · journal article1
• Taphonomy of two holocene microvertebrate deposits, Takaka Hill, Nelson, New Zealand, and identification of the avian predator responsibleWorthy and Holdaway, 1996 · Historical Biology · journal article1

Each of the 17 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.

What may have been alongside itProsthemadera through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1788)