Todiramphus sanctus
The sacred kingfisher is a medium-sized woodland kingfisher that occurs in mangroves, woodlands, forests and river valleys in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the western Pacific.
fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Canon 400mm f/5.6 L · GFDL 1.2 · 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
- sacred 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 sanctus 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 sanctus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Todiramphus sanctus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Columba vitiensis3 sites
- Ducula goliath3 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus3 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei3 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae3 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae3 sites
- Tyto alba3 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis3 sites
- Accipiter efficax2 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Accipiter haplochrous2 sites
- Aegotheles savesi2 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi2 sites
- Cacomantis flabelliformis2 sites
- Chalcophaps indica2 sites
- Charmosyna diadema2 sites
- Chrysococcyx lucidus layardi2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Coturnix pectoralis2 sites
- Cyanoramphus saisseti2 sites
- Ducula pacifica2 sites
- Eunymphicus cornutus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Todiramphus sanctus, 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- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves2
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia1
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. 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 Todiramphus sanctus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Canon 400mm f/5.6 L
- Licence
- GFDL 1.2
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Todiramphus sanctus 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.
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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. (Vigors and Horsfield 1827)