Vanellus madagascariensis
The Malagasy lapwing is an extinct type of wader/shorebird, in the lapwing family.
No picture of Vanellus madagascariensis 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 Vanellus madagascariensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Malagasy lapwingPBDB
- Sits inside
- VanellusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
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.
2 occurrences of Vanellus madagascariensis 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
2 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.
Vanellus madagascariensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Vanellus madagascariensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Alopochen sirabensis2 sites
- Anas2 sites
- Ardea humbloti2 sites
- Fulica cristata2 sites
- Mullerornis2 sites
- Phoenicopterus roseus2 sites
- Pterocles personatus2 sites
- Accipiter henstii1 site
- Accipitridae1 site
- Aepyornis1 site
- Anas bernieri1 site
- Anastomus lamelligerus1 site
- Apus balstoni1 site
- Ardea cinerea1 site
- Ardea purpurea1 site
- Athene superciliaris1 site
- Brachypteracias langrandi1 site
- Buteo brachypterus1 site
- Caprimulgus madagascariensis1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Coracopsis vasa1 site
- Coua berthae1 site
- Coua cristata1 site
- Coua gigas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Vanellus madagascariensis, 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- Subfossil birds from a submerged cave in southwestern Madagascar1
- Holocene bird subfossils from the sites of Ampasambazimba, Antsirabe and Ampoza, Madagascar: changes in the avifauna of south central Madagascar over the past few millennia1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Vanellus madagascariensis 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 Vanellus madagascariensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vanellus madagascariensis 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 itVanellus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goodman 1997