Ptilinopus rarotongensis
The lilac-crowned fruit dove, also known as the Rarotonga fruit-dove or Cook Islands fruit-dove, is one of over 50 species of Ptilinopus.
Mike Bowie · 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
- Cook Islands 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.
4 occurrences of Ptilinopus rarotongensis 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
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.
Ptilinopus rarotongensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ptilinopus rarotongensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Alopecoenas erythropterus3 sites
- Ducula galeata3 sites
- Gallirallus ripleyi3 sites
- Phaethon lepturus3 sites
- Porzana rua3 sites
- Vini kuhlii3 sites
- Acrocephalus kerearako2 sites
- Gygis alba2 sites
- Vini2 sites
- Vini vidivici2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Anas superciliosa1 site
- Anous ceruleus1 site
- Ducula aurorae1 site
- Fregata ariel1 site
- Gallicolumba1 site
- Gallicolumba nui1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Gygis alba microrhyncha1 site
- Heliopora1 site
- Platygyra1 site
- Pluvialis dominica1 site
- Porites1 site
- Pterodroma nigripennis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ptilinopus rarotongensis, 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
2 references- Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia3
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups1
Each 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 Ptilinopus rarotongensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Mike Bowie
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ptilinopus rarotongensis 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. Hartlaub and Finsch 1871