Todiramphus godeffroyi
The Marquesan kingfisher or Marquesas kingfisher is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia. It is threatened by habitat loss and predation by introduced species, and is currently classified as Critically endangered, with fewer than 500 individuals left in the wild.
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
- Marquesas kingfisherPBDB
- Sits inside
- TodiramphusPBDB
- Diet
- piscivore, insectivorePBDB, for Alcedinidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Alcedinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Alcedinidae
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.
3 occurrences of Todiramphus godeffroyi 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
3 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.
Todiramphus godeffroyi and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Todiramphus godeffroyi and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Alopecoenas rubescens2 sites
- Vini sinotoi2 sites
- Acrocephalus mendanae1 site
- Ducula galeata1 site
- Gallicolumba1 site
- Gallirallus epulare1 site
- Gallirallus gracilitibia1 site
- Gallirallus roletti1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Myiagra1 site
- Porphyrio paepae1 site
- Porzana1 site
- Ptilinopus1 site
- Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii1 site
- Vini vidivici1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Todiramphus godeffroyi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups2
- A chronostratigraphic analysis of landbird extinction on Tahuata, Marquesas Islands1
Each of the 3 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 Todiramphus godeffroyi
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- James Eaton
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Todiramphus godeffroyi 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 itTodiramphus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Finsch 1877)