Fregetta grallaria
The white-bellied storm petrel is a species of seabird in the family Oceanitidae. It is found in Angola, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Maldives, Namibia, New Zealand, Perú, Saint Helena, and South Africa. Its natural habitat is open seas.
Danmantle · 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
- white-bellied storm-petrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- FregettaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
- Mass
- 47 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.
2 occurrences of Fregetta grallaria 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
2 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 grallaria and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Fregetta grallaria and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Accipiter efficax1 site
- Accipiter fasciatus1 site
- Accipiter haplochrous1 site
- Aegotheles savesi1 site
- Aerodramus spodiopygius1 site
- Alopecoenas stairi1 site
- Anas marecula1 site
- Ardenna carneipes1 site
- Ardenna grisea1 site
- Cacomantis flabelliformis1 site
- Caloenas canacorum1 site
- Chalcophaps indica1 site
- Charadrius bicinctus1 site
- Charmosyna diadema1 site
- Chrysococcyx lucidus layardi1 site
- Coenocorypha neocaledonica1 site
- Collocalia esculenta1 site
- Columba vitiensis1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Coturnix pectoralis1 site
- Cyanoramphus saisseti1 site
- Diomedea1 site
- Diomedea amsterdamensis1 site
- Drepanoptila holosericea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fregetta grallaria, 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
2 references- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves1
- The fossil avifauna of Amsterdam Island, Indian Ocean1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Fregetta grallaria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Danmantle
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fregetta grallaria 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.
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 itFregetta through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vieillot 1818)