Gallirallus ripleyi
via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
- Mangaia railPBDB
- Sits inside
- GallirallusPBDB
- 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.
6 occurrences of Gallirallus ripleyi 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
6 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.
Gallirallus ripleyi and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Gallirallus ripleyi and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Porzana rua5 sites
- Vini kuhlii5 sites
- Ducula galeata4 sites
- Vini vidivici4 sites
- Alopecoenas erythropterus3 sites
- Gygis alba3 sites
- Phaethon lepturus3 sites
- Ptilinopus rarotongensis3 sites
- Vini3 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis3 sites
- Acrocephalus kerearako2 sites
- Gallus gallus2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Anous ceruleus1 site
- Ducula aurorae1 site
- Gallicolumba1 site
- Gallicolumba nui1 site
- Gygis alba microrhyncha1 site
- Heliopora1 site
- Platygyra1 site
- Pluvialis dominica1 site
- Porites1 site
- Todiramphus tutus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Gallirallus ripleyi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia4
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups1
- Two new species of rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia, southern Cook Islands1
Each of the 6 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 content1
Picture of Gallirallus ripleyi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Gallirallus ripleyi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGallirallus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steadman 1987