Pachyptila vittata
The broad-billed prion is a small pelagic seabird in the shearwater and petrel family, Procellariidae. It is the largest prion, with grey upperparts plumage, and white underparts. The sexes are alike. It ranges from the southeast Atlantic to New Zealand mainly near the Antarctic Convergence. In the south Atlantic it breeds on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island; in the south Pacific it breeds on islands off the south coast of South Island, New Zealand and on the Chatham Islands. It has many other names that have been used such as blue-billed dove-petrel, broad-billed dove-petrel, long-billed prion, common prion, icebird, and whalebird.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- broad-billed prionPBDB
- Sits inside
- PachyptilaPBDB
- 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.
5 occurrences of Pachyptila vittata 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
5 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.
Pachyptila vittata and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Pachyptila vittata and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Pachyptila turtur5 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix5 sites
- Ardenna grisea4 sites
- Eudyptula minor3 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Larus dominicanus3 sites
- Pelagodroma marina3 sites
- Pterodroma axillaris3 sites
- Pterodroma inexpectata3 sites
- Puffinus3 sites
- Anthornis melanocephala2 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Apteryx australis2 sites
- Ardenna tenuirostris2 sites
- Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae2 sites
- Eudyptes2 sites
- Gallirallus australis2 sites
- Haematopus unicolor2 sites
- Larus2 sites
- Macronectes2 sites
- Megalurus rufescens2 sites
- Phalacrocorax carunculatus2 sites
- Phalacrocorax punctatus2 sites
- Philesturnus carunculatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pachyptila vittata, 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- Bird extinctions and fossil bones from Mangere Island, Chatham Islands2
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand1
- Fossils indicate Pelecanoides georgicus had large colonies at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand1
- Subfossil petrel bones from the Chatham Islands1
Each of the 5 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 Pachyptila vittata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- pjd1
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pachyptila vittata 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.
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What may have been alongside itPachyptila through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forster 1777)