Charadrius bicinctus
The double-banded plover, known as the banded dotterel or pohowera in New Zealand, is a species of bird in the plover family. Two subspecies are recognised: the nominate Anarhynchus bicinctus bicinctus, which breeds throughout New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands, and A. b. exilis, which breeds in New Zealand's subantarctic Auckland Islands.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- double-banded ploverPBDB
- Sits inside
- CharadriusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
- Mass
- 58 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Charadrius bicinctus 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene40%
- Holocene60%
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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Charadrius bicinctus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Charadrius bicinctus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Charadrius bicinctus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
220 taxa- Callaeas cinereus3 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae3 sites
- Cyanoramphus3 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix3 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Sceloglaux albifacies3 sites
- Turnagra capensis3 sites
- Anas chlorotis2 sites
- Anas superciliosa2 sites
- Anthornis melanura2 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Apteryx australis2 sites
- Ardenna grisea2 sites
- Carduelis carduelis2 sites
- Charadrius obscurus2 sites
- Chenonetta finschi2 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica2 sites
- Corvus2 sites
- Corvus moriorum2 sites
- Coturnix pectoralis2 sites
- Dinornis giganteus2 sites
- Emeus crassus2 sites
- Eudyptes pachyrhynchus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Charadrius bicinctus, 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
5 references- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves1
- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia II1
- Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand1
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand1
- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 5 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 content2
Picture of Charadrius bicinctus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Charadrius bicinctus · ROM:Birds:136248
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCharadrius through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jardine and Selby 1827