Ducula goliath
The goliath imperial pigeon, also known as the New Caledonian imperial pigeon and the notou, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. Its natural habitat is humid forests. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed it as a near-threatened species.
Ben Keen · CC0 · 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
- New Caledonian imperial-pigeonPBDB
- Sits inside
- DuculaPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
- Mass
- 660 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.
5 occurrences of Ducula goliath 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- 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.
Ducula goliath and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ducula goliath and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Columba vitiensis4 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus4 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis4 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus3 sites
- Chalcophaps indica3 sites
- Columbidae3 sites
- Ducula pacifica3 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Passeriformes3 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei3 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus3 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae3 sites
- Todiramphus sanctus3 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae3 sites
- Tyto alba3 sites
- Accipiter efficax2 sites
- Accipiter haplochrous2 sites
- Aegotheles savesi2 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi2 sites
- Cacomantis flabelliformis2 sites
- Charmosyna diadema2 sites
- Chrysococcyx lucidus layardi2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Coturnix pectoralis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ducula goliath, 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 Caledonia2
- Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, including a new genus and species of megapode1
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 content1
Picture of Ducula goliath
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Ben Keen
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ducula goliath 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 itDucula through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1859)