Lalage maculosa
The Polynesian triller is a passerine bird belonging to the triller genus Lalage in the cuckoo-shrike family Campephagidae. It has numerous subspecies distributed across the islands of the south-west Pacific.
Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- Polynesian trillerPBDB
- Sits inside
- LalagePBDB
- 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.
5 occurrences of Lalage maculosa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene56%
- Holocene44%
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.
Lalage maculosa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lalage maculosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Aplonis tabuensis5 sites
- Foulehaio carunculatus5 sites
- Todiramphus chloris5 sites
- Clytorhynchus vitiensis4 sites
- Didunculus placopedetes4 sites
- Ducula4 sites
- Ducula david4 sites
- Megapodius alimentum4 sites
- Turdus poliocephalus4 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi3 sites
- Eclectus infectus3 sites
- Gallirallus vekamatolu3 sites
- Megapodius3 sites
- Myzomela cardinalis3 sites
- Ptilinopus perousii3 sites
- Ptilinopus porphyraceus3 sites
- Vini australis3 sites
- Accipiter rufitorques2 sites
- Cettia2 sites
- Ducula pacifica2 sites
- Eopsaltria2 sites
- Gallinula2 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis2 sites
- Megapodius pritchardii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lalage maculosa, 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- Biogeography of Tongan birds before and after human impact4
- Prehistoric butchery and consumption of birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, south Pacific1
Each of the 5 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 content1
Picture of Lalage maculosa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lalage maculosa 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 itLalage through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Peale 1848)