Fulica prisca
The New Zealand coot is an extinct bird in the rail family, Rallidae, that was endemic to New Zealand. It was described in 1893 by New Zealand naturalist, ethnologist and museum director Augustus Hamilton, from material he had collected the previous year at Castle Rocks on the Ōreti River in Southland. The Latin specific epithet prisca means "old", referring to its subfossil occurrence. Remains have subsequently been found at several sites in both North and South Islands.
No picture of Fulica prisca 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 Fulica prisca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- New Zealand 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 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Fulica prisca 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
10 occurrences- Pleistocene19%
- Holocene81%
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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Fulica prisca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fulica prisca and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Fulica prisca and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Chenonetta finschi8 sites
- Emeus crassus8 sites
- Gallirallus australis8 sites
- Anas chlorotis7 sites
- Apteryx australis7 sites
- Pachyornis elephantopus7 sites
- Circus eylesi6 sites
- Corvus moriorum6 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides6 sites
- Harpagornis moorei6 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae6 sites
- Nestor meridionalis6 sites
- Strigops habroptila6 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae5 sites
- Turnagra capensis5 sites
- Anas superciliosa4 sites
- Apteryx4 sites
- Ardenna grisea4 sites
- Callaeas cinereus4 sites
- Cnemiornis calcitrans4 sites
- Cyanoramphus4 sites
- Cygnus sumnerensis4 sites
- Dinornis giganteus4 sites
- Eudyptes pachyrhynchus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Fulica prisca, 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- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand5
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand3
- Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand1
- Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in Takaka Valley and on Takaka Hill, northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Fulica prisca 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 Fulica prisca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fulica prisca 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. (Hamilton 1893)