Fregetta · Epoch Explorer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred

Also called: storm-petrelPBDB
Sits inside: OceanitidaePBDB
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 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.

3 occurrences of Fregetta 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

3 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.

Fregetta and its relatives

Holocene

Where Fregetta and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fregetta, 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

3 references

Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai CavesAnderson et al., 2010 · Journal of Pacific Archaeology · journal article1
The fossil avifauna of Amsterdam Island, Indian OceanWorthy and Jouventin, 1999 · Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C, 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology · journal article1
The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsisWragg, 1995 · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · journal article1

Each of the 3 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 Fregetta

Source: Wikipedia/Commons
Credit: Danmantle
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use: the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fregetta 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

Source: Wikipedia, “Fregetta”
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 it Oceanitidae through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1855