Ptilinopus roseicapilla
The Mariana fruit dove, totot in the Northern Marianas Islands or Paluman totut on Guam, also known as mwee'mwe in the Carolinian language, is a small, up to 24 cm (9.4 in) long, green fruit dove native and endemic to the Northern Marianas Islands in the Pacific and Guam. It has a red forehead; greyish head, back and breast; and yellow belly patch and undertail coverts. Sightings of the Mariana Fruit Dove on Guam are rare with up to two sightings per year.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Mariana fruit-dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- PtilinopusPBDB
- 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.
13 occurrences of Ptilinopus roseicapilla 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
13 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.
Ptilinopus roseicapilla and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ptilinopus roseicapilla and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Alopecoenas xanthonurus11 sites
- Aplonis opaca11 sites
- Passeriformes9 sites
- Porzana9 sites
- Pteropus9 sites
- Megapodius laperouse8 sites
- Squamata8 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata7 sites
- Gallirallus7 sites
- Rallidae7 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus7 sites
- Aerodramus vanikorensis6 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea6 sites
- Anous ceruleus5 sites
- Anous stolidus5 sites
- Gekkonidae5 sites
- Gygis alba candida5 sites
- Myzomela rubratra5 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri5 sites
- Serpentes5 sites
- Homo sapiens4 sites
- Pluvialis fulva4 sites
- Cleptornis marchei3 sites
- Columbidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Ptilinopus roseicapilla, 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 Islands8
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands3
- The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands2
Each of the 13 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 Ptilinopus roseicapilla
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- DickDaniels ( http://theworldbirds.org/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itPtilinopus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lesson 1831)