Corvus moriorum

The New Zealand raven is an extinct species of crow that was endemic to New Zealand. It went extinct in the 16th century.

Corvus moriorum

Original work: Walter Rothschild, Ernst Hartert, K. Jordan (editors) Derivative work: Dysmorodrepanis ( talk ) · Public Domain · 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
Chatham Islands ravenPBDB
Sits inside
CorvusPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Corvidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Corvidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Corvidae

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.

Pleistocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 6 of 10 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

10 occurrences of Corvus moriorum 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

10 occurrences

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

Hillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°E

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The named rock units Corvus moriorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corvus moriorum and its relatives

Holocene

Where Corvus moriorum and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Corvus moriorum, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 Corvus moriorum

Credit
Original work: Walter Rothschild, Ernst Hartert, K. Jordan (editors) Derivative work: Dysmorodrepanis ( talk )
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itCorvus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1892)