Rhipidura fuliginosa
The New Zealand fantail is a small insectivorous bird, the only species of fantail in New Zealand. It has four subspecies: R. f. fuliginosa in the South Island, R. f. placabilis in the North Island, R. f. penita in the Chatham Islands, and the now-extinct R. f. cervina formerly on Lord Howe Island. It is also known by its Māori names, pīwakawaka, tīwakawaka or piwaiwaka, and the Chatham Island subspecies by the Moriori name tchitake; the common pied morph is also known as pied fantail, and the uncommon dark morph is also known as black fantail. The species has been considered by many to be conspecific as the grey fantail of Australia and New Caledonia; however, due to significant differences in its calls, many authorities now treat it as a separate species.
Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand · CC0 · 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
- New Zealand fantailPBDB
- Sits inside
- RhipiduraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 7.2 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 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 Rhipidura fuliginosa 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- Pleistocene7%
- Holocene93%
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.
Rhipidura fuliginosa and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Rhipidura fuliginosa and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Cyanoramphus12 sites
- Rattus exulans12 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica10 sites
- Hoplodactylus maculatus10 sites
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae9 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae9 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae9 sites
- Mus musculus8 sites
- Mystacina robusta8 sites
- Passer domesticus8 sites
- Petroica australis7 sites
- Petroica macrocephala7 sites
- Turnagra capensis7 sites
- Gerygone igata6 sites
- Hoplodactylus duvaucelii6 sites
- Mohoua ochrocephala6 sites
- Sphenodon6 sites
- Sturnus vulgaris6 sites
- Xenicus6 sites
- Anthornis melanura5 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae5 sites
- Carduelis carduelis5 sites
- Mohoua novaeseelandiae5 sites
- Oligosoma lineoocellatum5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Rhipidura fuliginosa, 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- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand11
- The history of the Chatham Islands' bird fauna of the last 7000 years - a chronicle of change and extinction1
- Taphonomy of two holocene microvertebrate deposits, Takaka Hill, Nelson, New Zealand, and identification of the avian predator responsible1
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 content1
Picture of Rhipidura fuliginosa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rhipidura fuliginosa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRhipidura through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sparrman 1787)