Pelagornis orri
No picture of Pelagornis orri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pelagornis orri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PelagornisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pelagornithidae
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
7 occurrences of Pelagornis orri on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Found in
4 formations
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The named rock units Pelagornis orri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pelagornis orri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pelagornis orri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Odobenidae4 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis3 sites
- Dusisiren3 sites
- Moris lompocana3 sites
- Otodus megalodon3 sites
- Panphyseteroidea3 sites
- Sulidae3 sites
- Aethia2 sites
- Albireonidae2 sites
- Allodesmus2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Cosmopolitodus planus2 sites
- Desmostylus2 sites
- Diomedea2 sites
- Hexanchus2 sites
- Mancallinae2 sites
- Messapicetus2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Mysticeti2 sites
- Odontoceti2 sites
- Phoebastria anglica2 sites
- Pithanotaria2 sites
- Presbychen abavus2 sites
- Puffinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pelagornis orri, 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
7 references- A Miocene pelagornithid skull from the Astoria Formation and other bones of bony-toothed birds from the late Eocene Keasey Formation, western Oregon (USA)1
- New skull material of Osteodontornis orri (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the Miocene of California1
- Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean1
- Late Miocene marine birds from Orange County, California1
- Tertiary birds from Laguna Hills, Orange County, California1
- A new Miocene locality record for Puffinus diatomicus and Sula willetti1
- A gigantic "toothed" marine bird from the Miocene of California1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Pelagornis orri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pelagornis orri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pelagornis orri 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPelagornis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Howard 1957)