Myzomela rubratra
The Micronesian myzomela, also known as the Micronesian honeyeater, is a small honeyeater. It is found on the Caroline and Mariana islands, except on Guam, where it has been extinct since 1986. It occurs in and around the edges of forests, as well as coconut plantations, coastal strand, savanna brush, villages, towns, and gardens. Both genders have a predominantly black or brown body with scarlet-red patches—the location and coloration, however, varies widely by subspecies. When mature, the female, unlike the male, usually has olive fringing on her tail and wing feathers; additionally, the male does not have any brown on his body. Juveniles are much browner compared to adults and have little or no red coloring. The Micronesian myzomela has a unique song in the dawn—a continuous stream of trilled whistles and phrases, lasting for about 25 minutes on Kosrae, Yap, or Pohnpei, or a wheezy whistle on the Mariana Islands. Later in the day, the Kosrae bird produces a short, variable song and a wide array of "rather uninteresting" scolding or buzzy calls. On the Mariana Islands, the daytime song is a simple and tuneful "per-mit-you". The Palau bird's call is unique, resembling that of the great crested flycatcher or Micronesian starling.
Peter · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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 myzomelaPBDB
- Sits inside
- MyzomelaPBDB
- 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.
8 occurrences of Myzomela rubratra 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
8 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.
Myzomela rubratra and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Myzomela rubratra and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Aplonis opaca7 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata6 sites
- Pteropus6 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus5 sites
- Passeriformes5 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla5 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis4 sites
- Erythrura4 sites
- Megapodius laperouse4 sites
- Porzana4 sites
- Squamata4 sites
- Varanus4 sites
- Gekkonidae3 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri3 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus3 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea2 sites
- Anous ceruleus2 sites
- Anous stolidus2 sites
- Emoia sleveni2 sites
- Gallicolumba2 sites
- Gallirallus2 sites
- Gehyra2 sites
- Gygis alba candida2 sites
- Homo sapiens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Myzomela rubratra, 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
3 references- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands4
- The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands3
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands1
Each of the 8 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 Myzomela rubratra
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Peter
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Myzomela rubratra 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.
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 itMyzomela through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lesson 1827)