Diomedeidae

Diomedeidae

Jlfutari at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · 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
albatrossPBDB
Sits inside
ProcellariiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 102 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 102 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 102 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 102 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 102 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 51 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

102 occurrences of Diomedeidae on record. 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

102 occurrences

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.

Found in

21 formations

San Diego — 32.71°N, 117.12°WSan Diego — 32.57°N, 117.03°WSan Diego — 32.74°N, 117.16°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WTemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WMonterey — 33.56°N, 117.71°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°WBahía Inglesa — 27.08°S, 70.84°WBahía Inglesa — 27.17°S, 70.87°W"Topanga" — 33.66°N, 117.63°WAstoria — 46.28°N, 123.78°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WSan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°EHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°ECoquimbo — 29.07°S, 71.49°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WVarswater — 32.96°S, 18.11°ELincoln Creek — 46.28°N, 123.80°WHirayama — 35.65°N, 139.38°EPeace River — 27.75°N, 81.94°WBoom — 51.08°N, 4.40°E

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The named rock units Diomedeidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,746 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Diomedeidae, 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

57 references

Each of the 102 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. 45 further references are 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 Diomedeidae

Credit
Jlfutari at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diomedeidae 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1840