Phaps elegans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- brush bronzewingPBDB
- Sits inside
- PhapsPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
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.
2 occurrences of Phaps elegans 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
2 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.
Phaps elegans and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Phaps elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Coturnix2 sites
- Hirundinidae2 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus1 site
- Aegotheles cristatus1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Anthochaera carunculata1 site
- Anthochaera chrysoptera1 site
- Artamus cyanopterus1 site
- Atrichornis clamosus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Cacatua tenuirostris1 site
- Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae1 site
- Cinclosoma punctatum1 site
- Corvus1 site
- Cracticidae1 site
- Dasyornis brachypterus1 site
- Dasyornis broadbenti1 site
- Dasyornis longirostris1 site
- Eolophus roseicapilla1 site
- Eudyptula minor1 site
- Falco cenchroides1 site
- Gallirallus philippensis1 site
- Glossopsitta concinna1 site
- Glossopsitta porphyrocephala1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phaps elegans, 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- Fossil avian assemblage of Pitfall Origin from Holocene sediments in Amphitheatre Cave (G-2), South-western Victoria, Australia1
- Holocene avian assemblage from Skull Cave (AU-8), south-western Western Australia1
Each of the 2 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 Phaps elegans
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Phaps elegans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhaps through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Temminck 1809)