Tyto letocarti
The New Caledonian barn owl, also referred to as Letocart's barn owl, is an extinct species of owl in the barn owl family. It was endemic to the island of New Caledonia in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific region. It was described from Late Pleistocene to Holocene aged subfossil bones found at the Gilles Cave paleontological site on the west coast of Grande Terre. The holotype is a complete adult left femur, held by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. The owl was described as Tyto? letocarti, indicating uncertainty as to generic placement at the time. The specific epithet honours Yves Letocart of New Caledonia's Water and Forest Service, who was active in bird conservation and paleontological work on the island.
No picture of Tyto letocarti 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 Tyto letocarti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TytoPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Strigiformes
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Strigiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Strigiformes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Strigiformes
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.
4 occurrences of Tyto letocarti 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
4 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.
Tyto letocarti and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Tyto letocarti and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Aegotheles savesi4 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus4 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae4 sites
- Accipiter efficax3 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei3 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus3 sites
- Rhynochetos3 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae3 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis3 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Accipiter haplochrous2 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi2 sites
- Cacomantis flabelliformis2 sites
- Caloenas canacorum2 sites
- Charmosyna diadema2 sites
- Chrysococcyx lucidus layardi2 sites
- Coenocorypha2 sites
- Collocalia2 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Columba vitiensis2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Coturnix pectoralis2 sites
- Cyanoramphus saisseti2 sites
- Ducula goliath2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tyto letocarti, 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 Caledonia1
Each of the 4 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 Tyto letocarti 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 Tyto letocarti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tyto letocarti 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 itTyto through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Balouet and Olson 1989