Fregata ariel
The lesser frigatebird is a seabird of the frigatebird family Fregatidae. Around 75 cm (30 in) in length, it is the smallest species of frigatebird. It occurs over tropical and subtropical waters across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as well as off the Atlantic coast of Brazil.
Shah Jahan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- Lesser frigatebirdPBDB
- Sits inside
- FregataPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 858 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.
16 occurrences of Fregata ariel 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
16 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.
Fregata ariel and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Fregata ariel and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Anous stolidus9 sites
- Fregata minor9 sites
- Gallus gallus8 sites
- Phaethon lepturus8 sites
- Sula sula7 sites
- Gygis alba6 sites
- Onychoprion fuscatus6 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri6 sites
- Anous minutus5 sites
- Sterninae5 sites
- Pelagodroma marina4 sites
- Pluvialis dominica4 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata4 sites
- Sula leucogaster4 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus3 sites
- Aphanocrex podarces3 sites
- Egretta sacra3 sites
- Gygis alba candida3 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis3 sites
- Pterodroma3 sites
- Pterodroma nigripennis3 sites
- Pterodroma rupinarum3 sites
- Puffinus3 sites
- Sula3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Fregata ariel, 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
10 references- Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia3
- Paleornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean3
- Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia2
- Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands2
- New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia1
- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands1
- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands1
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups1
- The extinct avifauna of St. Helena Island1
Each of the 16 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 Fregata ariel
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Shah Jahan
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fregata ariel 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.
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 itFregata through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1845)