Caloenas canacorum
The Kanaka pigeon, also known as the great green pigeon or greater maned pigeon, is an extinct species of pigeon. It was probably hunted to extinction by the early settlers of New Caledonia and Tonga around 2,500 years ago. It was described from subfossil remains found at the Pindai Caves of New Caledonia. The specific epithet is a Latinisation of kanaka, the name of the native Melanesian people of New Caledonia. It was about 25% larger than its closest living relative, the Nicobar pigeon.
No picture of Caloenas canacorum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Caloenas canacorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaloenasPBDB
- 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 Caloenas canacorum on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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.
Caloenas canacorum and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Caloenas canacorum and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Accipiter efficax3 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus3 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei3 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus3 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae3 sites
- Aegotheles savesi2 sites
- Aerodramus spodiopygius2 sites
- Anas gracilis2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Columba vitiensis2 sites
- Drepanoptila holosericea2 sites
- Gallicolumba longitarsus2 sites
- Megapodius molistructor2 sites
- Mekosuchus inexpectatus2 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata2 sites
- Rhynochetos2 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae2 sites
- Tyto alba2 sites
- Tyto letocarti2 sites
- Urodynamis taitensis2 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis2 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus1 site
- Accipiter haplochrous1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Caloenas canacorum, 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- 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
- New species and records of birds (Aves: Megapodiidae, Columbidae) from an archeological site on Lifuka, Tonga1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Caloenas canacorum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Caloenas canacorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caloenas canacorum 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.
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What may have been alongside itCaloenas through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Balouet and Olson 1989