Megapodius laperouse
The Micronesian megapode or Micronesian scrubfowl is a megapode which inhabits islands of the Western Pacific Ocean.
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
- Micronesian scrubfowlPBDB
- Sits inside
- MegapodiusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Galliformes
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Galliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 280 gWikidata
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.
9 occurrences of Megapodius laperouse 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
9 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 laperouse and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Megapodius laperouse and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Aplonis opaca8 sites
- Pteropus8 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla8 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus7 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata5 sites
- Passeriformes5 sites
- Porzana5 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri5 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus5 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis4 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea4 sites
- Anous stolidus4 sites
- Gekkonidae4 sites
- Myzomela rubratra4 sites
- Phaethon lepturus4 sites
- Rattus4 sites
- Squamata4 sites
- Anous ceruleus3 sites
- Ducula oceanica3 sites
- Gallirallus3 sites
- Gygis alba candida3 sites
- Rallidae3 sites
- Egretta sacra2 sites
- Erythrura2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Megapodius laperouse, 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
4 references- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands4
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands3
- The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands1
- Fossil vertebrates from Palau, Micronesia: a resource assessment1
Each of the 9 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 Megapodius laperouse
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Megapodius laperouse 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 itMegapodius through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaimard 1823