Porphyrio kukwiedei
The New Caledonian gallinule is an extinct species of bird in the family Rallidae. It was endemic to New Caledonia and probably became extinct due to hunting, habitat loss and the presence of invasive species following human settlement of the island. However a passage from an 1860 article refers to birds the size of turkeys being present in marshy areas of New Caledonia, suggesting that it may have survived into historic times. The native name n'dino is thought to refer to this bird.
No picture of Porphyrio kukwiedei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Porphyrio kukwiedei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- New Caledonia gallinulePBDB
- Sits inside
- PorphyrioPBDB
- 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.
6 occurrences of Porphyrio kukwiedei 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
6 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 kukwiedei and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Porphyrio kukwiedei and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Gallirallus lafresnayanus6 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae6 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae5 sites
- Accipiter efficax4 sites
- Columba vitiensis4 sites
- Megapodius molistructor4 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus4 sites
- Tyto alba4 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis4 sites
- Aegotheles savesi3 sites
- Caloenas canacorum3 sites
- Collocalia esculenta3 sites
- Ducula goliath3 sites
- Mekosuchus inexpectatus3 sites
- Rhynochetos3 sites
- Todiramphus sanctus3 sites
- Tyto letocarti3 sites
- Urodynamis taitensis3 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Accipiter haplochrous2 sites
- Aerodramus spodiopygius2 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi2 sites
- Anas gracilis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Porphyrio kukwiedei, 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- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves3
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia3
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Porphyrio kukwiedei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Porphyrio kukwiedei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Porphyrio kukwiedei 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.
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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. Balouet and Olson 1989