Cleptornis marchei
The golden white-eye is a species of bird in the white-eye family, Zosteropidae. It is the only species within the genus Cleptornis. The golden white-eye was once considered to be a honeyeater in the family Meliphagidae and although it is now known to be a white-eye, its position within that family is still uncertain. The species is restricted to the islands of Saipan and Aguijan in the Northern Mariana Islands, where it is sympatric and competes with the related bridled white-eye. The golden white-eye has golden plumage and a pale eye-ring. It feeds on insects, fruit, and nectar and forages in pairs or small family groups. The bird is monogamous and lays two eggs in a small cup nest.
Peter · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- golden white-eyePBDB
- Sits inside
- CleptornisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
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 Cleptornis marchei 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.
Cleptornis marchei and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cleptornis marchei and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Alopecoenas xanthonurus3 sites
- Passeriformes3 sites
- Porzana3 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla3 sites
- Squamata3 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis2 sites
- Aplonis opaca2 sites
- Gallirallus2 sites
- Pteropus2 sites
- Rallidae2 sites
- Rattus exulans2 sites
- Serpentes2 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus2 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea1 site
- Anous ceruleus1 site
- Anous stolidus1 site
- Bufo marinus1 site
- Canis familiaris1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Emballonura semicaudata1 site
- Erythrura1 site
- Gallicolumba1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Gygis alba candida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cleptornis marchei, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cleptornis marchei
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Peter
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cleptornis marchei 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 itCleptornis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oustalet 1889)