Gallicolumba
Gallicolumba is a mid-sized genus of ground-dwelling doves, most of which occur in rainforests on the Philippines. Local name 'punay' which is a general term for pigeons and doves. They are not closely related to the American ground doves genus. Rather, the present genus is closest to the thick-billed ground pigeon.
Kao-Tai · 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- Sits inside
- ColumbidaePBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
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.
21 occurrences of Gallicolumba 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
21 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.
Gallicolumba and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Gallicolumba and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Gygis alba15 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis13 sites
- Anous11 sites
- Fregata minor11 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda11 sites
- Pterodroma11 sites
- Ptilinopus insularis10 sites
- Zapornia atra10 sites
- Acrocephalus taiti8 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis8 sites
- Anous ceruleus7 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa7 sites
- Ducula harrisoni6 sites
- Prosobonia sauli6 sites
- Puffinus6 sites
- Ducula galeata5 sites
- Pterodroma nigripennis5 sites
- Alopecoenas erythropterus4 sites
- Ardenna pacifica4 sites
- Bountyphaps obsoleta4 sites
- Phaethon lepturus4 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata4 sites
- Sula dactylatra4 sites
- Sula sula4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Gallicolumba, 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
8 references- A new species of Gallicolumba: Columbidae from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group12
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups3
- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves1
- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands1
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands1
- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
- Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia1
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia1
Each of the 21 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 content2
Picture of Gallicolumba
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kao-Tai
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Gallicolumba luzonica luzonica · FMNH:Birds:106064
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.
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What may have been alongside itColumbidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heck 1849