Todiramphus tutus
The chattering kingfisher is a species of bird in the kingfisher family Alcedinidae. The species is found in the Cook Islands and the Society Islands in French Polynesia.
James Eaton · 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
- chattering kingfisherPBDB
- Sits inside
- TodiramphusPBDB
- Diet
- piscivore, insectivorePBDB, for Alcedinidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Alcedinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Alcedinidae
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 Todiramphus tutus 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.
Todiramphus tutus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Todiramphus tutus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Alopecoenas erythropterus4 sites
- Ducula aurorae3 sites
- Ducula galeata3 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis3 sites
- Anous stolidus2 sites
- Ardenna pacifica2 sites
- Butorides striata2 sites
- Egretta sacra2 sites
- Fregata ariel2 sites
- Fregata minor2 sites
- Gallicolumba2 sites
- Gygis alba2 sites
- Phaethon lepturus2 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata2 sites
- Pterodroma alba2 sites
- Ptilinopus purpuratus2 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis2 sites
- Sula leucogaster2 sites
- Sula sula2 sites
- Vini sinotoi2 sites
- Vini vidivici2 sites
- Acrocephalus caffer1 site
- Acrocephalus kerearako1 site
- Acropora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Todiramphus tutus, 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- Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands2
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups2
- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
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 content1
Picture of Todiramphus tutus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- James Eaton
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Todiramphus tutus 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 itTodiramphus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1788)