Megapodius freycinet · Epoch Explorer

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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: dusky scrubfowlPBDB
Sits inside: MegapodiusPBDB
Diet: herbivorePBDB, for Galliformes
Life habit: volantPBDB, for Galliformes
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.

3 occurrences of Megapodius freycinet 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

3 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.

Megapodius freycinet and its relatives

Holocene

Where Megapodius freycinet and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Megapodius freycinet, 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

1 reference

Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesian outliers in the Solomon IslandsSteadman et al., 1990 · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers · journal article3

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Megapodius freycinet

Source: Wikidata/Commons
Credit: nobody named on the record
Licence: not stated by the source
Commercial use: cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Megapodius freycinet 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside it Megapodius through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaimard 1823