Ardenna pacifica
The wedge-tailed shearwater is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It is one of the shearwater species that is sometimes referred to as a muttonbird, like the sooty shearwater of New Zealand and the short-tailed shearwater of Australia. It is found throughout the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, roughly between latitudes 35°N and 35°S. It breeds on the islands off Japan, on the Islas Revillagigedo, the Hawaiian Islands, the Seychelles, the Northern Mariana Islands, and off Eastern and Western Australia.
Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 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
- wedge-tailed shearwaterPBDB
- Sits inside
- ArdennaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
- Mass
- 465 gWikidata
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.
30 occurrences of Ardenna pacifica 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
30 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.
Ardenna pacifica and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ardenna pacifica and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Gallus gallus13 sites
- Phaethon lepturus12 sites
- Gygis alba9 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri9 sites
- Anous stolidus7 sites
- Procellariidae7 sites
- Pterodroma6 sites
- Puffinus bailloni6 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis6 sites
- Alopochen kervazoi5 sites
- Ducula pacifica5 sites
- Fregata minor5 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis5 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda5 sites
- Pseudobulweria5 sites
- Pterodroma heraldica5 sites
- Sula sula5 sites
- Columbidae4 sites
- Megapodius alimentum4 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa4 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis4 sites
- Otus grucheti4 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata4 sites
- Ptilinopus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Ardenna pacifica, 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
13 references- New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia6
- The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans6
- Prehistoric avifaunas from the Kingdom of Tonga3
- Avifaunal assemblages from Nenega-iti and Onemea2
- Prehistoric butchery and consumption of birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, south Pacific2
- The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis2
- Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands2
- Prodromus of the fossil avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands2
- Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, including a new genus and species of megapode1
- A synopsis of the pre-human avifauna of the Mascarene Islands1
- Bird bones from the To’aga site: prehistoric loss of seabirds and megapodes1
- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
Each of the 30 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Ardenna pacifica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Forest & Kim Starr
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itArdenna through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1789)