Fulica chathamensis
The Chatham coot, also known as the Chatham Island coot, is an extinct bird in the rail family, Rallidae, that was endemic to the Chatham Islands of New Zealand. It was described from subfossil bones in 1892 by Scottish explorer, ornithologist and botanist Henry Forbes, who was director of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch at the time.
John Gerrard Keulemans · 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 cootPBDB
- Sits inside
- FulicaPBDB
- 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.
8 occurrences of Fulica chathamensis 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
8 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.
Fulica chathamensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Fulica chathamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Hemiphaga chathamensis3 sites
- Anas1 site
- Anas chathamica1 site
- Anthornis melanura1 site
- Anthus novaeseelandiae1 site
- Coenocorypha chathamica1 site
- Corvus moriorum1 site
- Cyanoramphus auriceps1 site
- Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae1 site
- Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi1 site
- Eudyptula minor1 site
- Falco novaeseelandiae1 site
- Gallirallus dieffenbachii1 site
- Gallirallus modestus1 site
- Gerygone albofrontata1 site
- Larus dominicanus1 site
- Megalurus rufescens1 site
- Mergus milleneri1 site
- Nestor chathamensis1 site
- Pachyptila crassirostris1 site
- Pachyptila turtur1 site
- Pelagodroma marina1 site
- Pelecanoides urinatrix1 site
- Petroica traversi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Fulica chathamensis, 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 8 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 Fulica chathamensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- John Gerrard Keulemans
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fulica chathamensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFulica through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1892)