Ptilinopus insularis
The Henderson fruit dove, Henderson Island fruit dove or scarlet-capped fruit dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.
James Eaton · CC0 · 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
- Henderson Island fruit-dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- PtilinopusPBDB
- 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.
10 occurrences of Ptilinopus insularis 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
10 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.
Ptilinopus insularis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ptilinopus insularis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Anous10 sites
- Gallicolumba leonpascoi10 sites
- Gygis alba10 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda10 sites
- Pterodroma9 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis9 sites
- Zapornia atra9 sites
- Acrocephalus taiti8 sites
- Fregata minor8 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa7 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis7 sites
- Anous ceruleus6 sites
- Ducula harrisoni6 sites
- Prosobonia sauli6 sites
- Pterodroma nigripennis5 sites
- Puffinus5 sites
- Bountyphaps obsoleta4 sites
- Sula dactylatra4 sites
- Vini stepheni4 sites
- Ardenna pacifica2 sites
- Hirundo tahitica2 sites
- Onychoprion fuscatus2 sites
- Bulweria bulwerii1 site
- Diomedea epomophora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ptilinopus insularis, 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- The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis10
Each of the 10 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 Ptilinopus insularis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- James Eaton
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ptilinopus insularis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPtilinopus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. North 1908