Gygis alba candida
Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- Pacific white ternPBDB
- Sits inside
- Gygis albaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
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.
11 occurrences of Gygis alba candida 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
11 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.
Gygis alba candida and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Gygis alba candida and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Anous stolidus9 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus8 sites
- Aplonis opaca7 sites
- Gallirallus6 sites
- Porzana6 sites
- Pteropus6 sites
- Rallidae6 sites
- Squamata6 sites
- Amaurornis cinerea5 sites
- Anous ceruleus5 sites
- Anous minutus5 sites
- Passeriformes5 sites
- Phaethon lepturus5 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla5 sites
- Gallus gallus4 sites
- Homo sapiens4 sites
- Pluvialis fulva4 sites
- Zosterops conspicillatus4 sites
- Fregata ariel3 sites
- Megapodius laperouse3 sites
- Pluvialis dominica3 sites
- Serpentes3 sites
- Acrocephalus luscinius2 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Gygis alba candida, 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
4 references- The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands6
- Fossil vertebrates from Palau, Micronesia: a resource assessment2
- Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia2
- Prehistoric butchery and consumption of birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, south Pacific1
Each of the 11 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 content2
Picture of Gygis alba candida
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Gygis alba rothschildi · FMNH:Birds:314021
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGygis alba through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1789)