Gallicolumba nui
The great ground dove is an extinct species of bird in the family Columbidae. It was found in Mangaia in the southern Cook Islands, and in French Polynesia where subfossil bones between 1000 and 2000 years old have been found in the Marquesas, as well as between 750 and 1250 years old at the Fa'ahia early occupation site on Huahine in the Society Islands.
No picture of Gallicolumba nui 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 Gallicolumba nui, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GallicolumbaPBDB
- 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.
2 occurrences of Gallicolumba nui 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
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.
Gallicolumba nui and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Gallicolumba nui and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Alopecoenas erythropterus2 sites
- Ducula galeata2 sites
- Gygis alba2 sites
- Phaethon lepturus2 sites
- Vini vidivici2 sites
- Acrocephalus caffer1 site
- Anous minutus1 site
- Anous stolidus1 site
- Aplonis diluvialis1 site
- Ardenna pacifica1 site
- Butorides striata1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Ducula aurorae1 site
- Egretta sacra1 site
- Fregata1 site
- Fregata ariel1 site
- Fregata minor1 site
- Gallirallus ripleyi1 site
- Gallirallus storrsolsoni1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Larus utunui1 site
- Macropygia arevarevauupa1 site
- Numenius tahitiensis1 site
- Pluvialis dominica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gallicolumba nui, 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
2 references- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
- Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Gallicolumba nui 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 Gallicolumba nui, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gallicolumba nui 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 itGallicolumba through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steadman 1992