Nycticorax duboisi
The Réunion night heron is an extinct species of heron formerly occurring on the Mascarene island of Réunion.
Chris huh · Public Domain · 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
- Réunion night heronPBDB
- Sits inside
- NycticoraxPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Ardeidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Ardeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ardeidae
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 Nycticorax duboisi 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
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.
Nycticorax duboisi and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Nycticorax duboisi and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Alopochen kervazoi3 sites
- Ardenna pacifica3 sites
- Falco duboisi2 sites
- Fulica newtonii2 sites
- Otus grucheti2 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri2 sites
- Threskiornis solitarius2 sites
- Anas theodori1 site
- Aythya1 site
- Cylindraspis1 site
- Mascarinus mascarin1 site
- Nesoenas duboisi1 site
- Phaethon lepturus1 site
- Phoenicopterus roseus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nycticorax duboisi, 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
2 references- The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans2
- A new genus, three new species and two new records of extinct Holocene birds from Réunion Island, Indian Ocean1
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. 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 Nycticorax duboisi
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Chris huh
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itNycticorax through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rothschild 1907)