Anous ceruleus
Angela K. Kepler · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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-gray noddyPBDB
- Sits inside
- AnousPBDB
- 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.
17 occurrences of Anous ceruleus 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
17 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.
Anous ceruleus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Anous ceruleus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Gygis alba8 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda8 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus7 sites
- Fregata minor7 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea6 sites
- Anous stolidus6 sites
- Aplonis opaca6 sites
- Gallicolumba leonpascoi6 sites
- Pterodroma6 sites
- Ptilinopus insularis6 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis6 sites
- Zapornia atra6 sites
- Acrocephalus taiti5 sites
- Gallus gallus5 sites
- Gygis alba candida5 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis5 sites
- Pterodroma nigripennis5 sites
- Pteropus5 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla5 sites
- Anous minutus4 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Phaethon lepturus4 sites
- Prosobonia sauli4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Anous ceruleus, 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
6 references- The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis6
- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands3
- Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia3
- Bird, reptile and mammal remains from archaeological sites on Rapa Island2
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Rota, Mariana Islands2
- Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia1
Each of the 17 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 Anous ceruleus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Angela K. Kepler
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anous ceruleus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnous through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bennett 1840)