Eunymphicus cornutus
The horned parakeet is a species of parrot in the genus Eunymphicus, in the family Psittaculidae. It is a medium-sized parrot endemic to New Caledonia. It is called "horned" because it has two black feathers that protrude from the head and have red tips.
Tunpin.ong · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- horned parakeetPBDB
- Sits inside
- EunymphicusPBDB
- 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 Eunymphicus cornutus 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.
Eunymphicus cornutus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Eunymphicus cornutus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Gallirallus lafresnayanus3 sites
- Passeriformes3 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae3 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae3 sites
- Accipiter efficax2 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Accipiter haplochrous2 sites
- Aegotheles savesi2 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi2 sites
- Cacomantis flabelliformis2 sites
- Charmosyna diadema2 sites
- Chrysococcyx lucidus layardi2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Columba vitiensis2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Coturnix pectoralis2 sites
- Cyanoramphus saisseti2 sites
- Ducula goliath2 sites
- Ducula pacifica2 sites
- Eurostopodus exul2 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis swindellsi2 sites
- Haliastur sphenurus2 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Pandion haliaetus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eunymphicus cornutus, 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 Eunymphicus cornutus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Tunpin.ong
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eunymphicus cornutus 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 itEunymphicus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1788)