Vini vidivici
The conquered lorikeet is a species of parrot that became extinct 700–1300 years ago. It lived in islands of Polynesia. David Steadman and Marie Zarriello wrote its species description in 1987.
FunkMonk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- conquered 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.
14 occurrences of Vini vidivici 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
14 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 vidivici and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Vini vidivici and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Vini sinotoi10 sites
- Ducula galeata7 sites
- Gygis alba5 sites
- Phaethon lepturus5 sites
- Vini ultramarina5 sites
- Alopecoenas erythropterus4 sites
- Gallirallus ripleyi4 sites
- Gallus gallus4 sites
- Vini kuhlii4 sites
- Porzana rua3 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis3 sites
- Alopecoenas rubescens2 sites
- Anous stolidus2 sites
- Ardenna pacifica2 sites
- Butorides striata2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Egretta sacra2 sites
- Fregata ariel2 sites
- Fregata minor2 sites
- Gallicolumba2 sites
- Gallicolumba nui2 sites
- Gallirallus2 sites
- Pluvialis dominica2 sites
- Porphyrio paepae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Vini vidivici, 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
4 references- Two new species of parrots (Aves: Psittacidae) from archeological sites in the Marquesas Islands7
- Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia4
- 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 14 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 Vini vidivici
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- FunkMonk
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vini vidivici 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. Steadman and Zarriello 1987