Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae

The red-crowned parakeet, also known as red-fronted parakeet and by its Māori name of kākāriki, is a small parrot from New Zealand. It is characterised by its bright green plumage and the red pattern on its head. This versatile bird can feed on a variety food items and can be found in many habitat types. It used to be classified as near threatened as invasive predators had pushed it out of its historical range but it is now at least concern. This species used to occupy the entire island, but is now confined to only a few areas on the mainland and some offshore islands.

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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: red-fronted parakeetPBDB
Sits inside: CyanoramphusPBDB
Diet: carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit: ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility: actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment: terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Mass: 82 gWikidata

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.

7 occurrences of Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae 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

7 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.

Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae and its relatives

Holocene

Where Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae, 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

Avifauna from the Emily Bay settlement site, Norfolk Island: a preliminary accountHoldaway and Anderson, 2001 · Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement · journal article4
Holocene fossil bird remains from subantarctic Macquarie IslandTennyson and Scofield, 2013 · Proceeding of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution · journal article1
The history of the Chatham Islands' bird fauna of the last 7000 years - a chronicle of change and extinctionMillener, 1999 · Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C, 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology · journal article1
Bird extinctions and fossil bones from Mangere Island, Chatham IslandsTennyson and Millener, 1994 · Notornis, Supplement · journal article1

Each of the 7 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 Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae

Source: Wikipedia/Commons
Credit: Charles J. Sharp
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use: the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae 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

Source: Wikipedia, “Red-crowned parakeet”
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 it Cyanoramphus through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sparrman 1787)