Aerodramus vanikorensis
Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- uniform swiftletPBDB
- Sits inside
- AerodramusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Apodidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Apodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Apodidae
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.
14 occurrences of Aerodramus vanikorensis 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
14 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.
Aerodramus vanikorensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Aerodramus vanikorensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Aplonis opaca9 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata9 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus7 sites
- Porzana7 sites
- Pteropus7 sites
- Rattus exulans7 sites
- Squamata7 sites
- Gekkonidae6 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla6 sites
- Megapodius laperouse4 sites
- Myzomela rubratra4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Perochirus ateles4 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri4 sites
- Ramphotyphlops sp.4 sites
- Varanus4 sites
- Zosteropidae4 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus4 sites
- Emoia sleveni3 sites
- Erythrura3 sites
- Rattus3 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea2 sites
- Anous ceruleus2 sites
- Bufo marinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Aerodramus vanikorensis, 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
3 references- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands7
- The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands5
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands2
Each of the 14 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 Aerodramus vanikorensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Aerodramus vanikorensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAerodramus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quoy and Gaimard 1830)