Eurostopodus exul
The New Caledonian nightjar is a poorly known species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is endemic to New Caledonia.
No picture of Eurostopodus exul was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eurostopodus exul, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- New Caledonian nightjarPBDB
- Sits inside
- EurostopodusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Caprimulgidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Caprimulgidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Caprimulgidae
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.
2 occurrences of Eurostopodus exul 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
2 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.
Eurostopodus exul and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Eurostopodus exul and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- 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
- Eunymphicus cornutus2 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus2 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis swindellsi2 sites
- Haliastur sphenurus2 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Pandion haliaetus2 sites
- Passeriformes2 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei2 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eurostopodus exul, 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 2 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 content0
No picture of Eurostopodus exul was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eurostopodus exul, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eurostopodus exul 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 itEurostopodus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mayr 1941)