Rhynochetos
Rhynochetos is a genus of ground-dwelling birds in the monotypic family Rhynochetidae. It contains two species, both endemic to New Caledonia, one of which is extinct.
Pierre Fidenci · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- kaguPBDB
- Sits inside
- RhynochetidaePBDB
- 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.
5 occurrences of Rhynochetos 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.
Rhynochetos and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Rhynochetos and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Gallirallus lafresnayanus5 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei5 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae5 sites
- Accipiter efficax4 sites
- Megapodius molistructor4 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus4 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae4 sites
- Aegotheles savesi3 sites
- Caloenas canacorum3 sites
- Collocalia esculenta3 sites
- Columba vitiensis3 sites
- Mekosuchus inexpectatus3 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Tyto alba3 sites
- Tyto letocarti3 sites
- Urodynamis taitensis3 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis3 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Accipiter haplochrous2 sites
- Aerodramus spodiopygius2 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi2 sites
- Anas gracilis2 sites
- Cacomantis flabelliformis2 sites
- Charmosyna diadema2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rhynochetos, 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 Caledonia2
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 Rhynochetos
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Pierre Fidenci
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- 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
- Rhynochetos jubatus · FMNH:Birds:291228
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Rhynochetos”
- 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 itRhynochetidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Verreaux and des Murs 1860