Alopecoenas rubescens
The Marquesan ground dove or Marquesas ground dove is a bird species in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
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 ground-dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- AlopecoenasPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Alopecoenas rubescens 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.
Alopecoenas rubescens and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Alopecoenas rubescens and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Vini sinotoi3 sites
- Ducula galeata2 sites
- Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii2 sites
- Todiramphus godeffroyi2 sites
- Vini vidivici2 sites
- Acrocephalus mendanae1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Gallicolumba1 site
- Gallirallus epulare1 site
- Gallirallus gracilitibia1 site
- Gallirallus roletti1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Myiagra1 site
- Papasula abbotti1 site
- Porphyrio paepae1 site
- Porzana1 site
- Ptilinopus1 site
- Rallidae1 site
- Vini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Alopecoenas rubescens, 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 Alopecoenas rubescens
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- James Eaton
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Alopecoenas rubescens 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 itAlopecoenas through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vieillot 1818)