Vini australis

The blue-crowned lorikeet, also known as the blue-crowned lory, blue-crested lory, Solomon lory or Samoan lory, is a parrot found In the Polynesian Islands of Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and some other islands off the coast like Niue and Futuna. It is a 19 centimetres (7.5 in) green lorikeet with a red throat, blue crown, and belly patch shading from red at the top to purple at the bottom.

Vini australis

William Warby from London, England · CC BY 2.0 · 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
blue-crowned lorikeetPBDB
Sits inside
ViniPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Mass
49 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.

Pleistocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 3 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence629 ka0 Mya

3 occurrences of Vini australis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

3 occurrences

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.

Vini australis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Vini australis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Vini australis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Vini australis

Credit
William Warby from London, England
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vini australis 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 itVini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1788)