Porphyrio hochstetteri
Porphyrio_hochstetteri_-Tiritiri_Matangi_Island-8b.jpg : Ashleigh Thompson derivative work: Snowmanradio ( talk ) · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- South Island takahePBDB
- Sits inside
- PorphyrioPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 2.27 kgWikidata
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.
5 occurrences of Porphyrio hochstetteri 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
5 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.
Porphyrio hochstetteri and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Porphyrio hochstetteri and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Emeus crassus5 sites
- Gallirallus australis5 sites
- Apteryx australis4 sites
- Aptornis defossor4 sites
- Chenonetta finschi4 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae4 sites
- Fulica prisca4 sites
- Harpagornis moorei4 sites
- Pachyornis elephantopus4 sites
- Anas chlorotis3 sites
- Anas superciliosa3 sites
- Apteryx3 sites
- Callaeas cinereus3 sites
- Circus eylesi3 sites
- Cnemiornis calcitrans3 sites
- Corvus moriorum3 sites
- Cygnus sumnerensis3 sites
- Dinornis giganteus3 sites
- Emeidae3 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides3 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Nestor meridionalis3 sites
- Philesturnus carunculatus3 sites
- Strigops habroptila3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Porphyrio hochstetteri, 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- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand3
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand2
Each of the 5 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 content2
Picture of Porphyrio hochstetteri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Porphyrio_hochstetteri_-Tiritiri_Matangi_Island-8b.jpg : Ashleigh Thompson derivative work: Snowmanradio ( talk )
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Porphyrio mantelli · NHMUK:ZOO:S/1961.17.1
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPorphyrio through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meyer 1883)