Vini stepheni
Stephen's lorikeet, also known as the Henderson lorikeet or the Henderson Island Lorikeet, is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It is endemic to Henderson Island in the Pitcairn Islands of the South Pacific.
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
- Stephen's lorikeetPBDB
- Sits inside
- ViniPBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Vini stepheni 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
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.
Vini stepheni and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Vini stepheni and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Acrocephalus taiti4 sites
- Anous4 sites
- Ducula harrisoni4 sites
- Fregata minor4 sites
- Gallicolumba leonpascoi4 sites
- Gygis alba4 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa4 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda4 sites
- Pterodroma4 sites
- Ptilinopus insularis4 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis4 sites
- Zapornia atra4 sites
- Bountyphaps obsoleta3 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis3 sites
- Prosobonia sauli3 sites
- Onychoprion fuscatus2 sites
- Pterodroma nigripennis2 sites
- Puffinus2 sites
- Sula dactylatra2 sites
- Anous ceruleus1 site
- Ardenna pacifica1 site
- Bulweria bulwerii1 site
- Diomedea epomophora1 site
- Fregetta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Vini stepheni, 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- The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis4
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. 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 stepheni
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- James Eaton
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vini stepheni 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 itVini through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (North 1908)