Anous minutus
The black noddy, also known as white-capped noddy, is a species of tern in the family Laridae. It is a medium-sized seabird with black plumage and a white cap that closely resembles the lesser noddy with which it was at one time considered conspecific. The black noddy has slightly darker plumage and dark rather than pale lores.
Gregg Yan · 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
- black 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.
19 occurrences of Anous minutus 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
19 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 minutus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Anous minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Anous stolidus16 sites
- Gallus gallus13 sites
- Sula sula9 sites
- Sterninae8 sites
- Fregata minor7 sites
- Phaethon lepturus7 sites
- Pluvialis dominica7 sites
- Sula7 sites
- Fregata ariel5 sites
- Gygis alba candida5 sites
- Onychoprion fuscatus5 sites
- Porphyrio porphyrio5 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus4 sites
- Anous ceruleus4 sites
- Ducula pacifica4 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis4 sites
- Procellariidae4 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata4 sites
- Pterodroma4 sites
- Tringa incana4 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea3 sites
- Aplonis opaca3 sites
- Ardenna pacifica3 sites
- Fregata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Anous minutus, 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- Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands12
- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands2
- Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia2
- Prehistoric butchery and consumption of birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, south Pacific1
- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands1
Each of the 19 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 content2
Picture of Anous minutus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Gregg Yan
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Anous minutus · FMNH:Birds:346127
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Black noddy”
- 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 itAnous through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boie 1844