Pelecanoides whenuahouensis
The Whenua Hou diving petrel known also as Kuaka, is a highly endangered subspecies of the South Georgia diving petrel that is endemic to New Zealand.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Whenua Hou diving-petrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- PelecanoidesPBDB
- 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.
22 occurrences of Pelecanoides whenuahouensis 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
22 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.
Pelecanoides whenuahouensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Pelecanoides whenuahouensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
1 taxon- Pelecanoides urinatrix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Pelecanoides whenuahouensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 22 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Pelecanoides whenuahouensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- TheyLookLikeUs
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pelecanoides whenuahouensis 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 itPelecanoides through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer et al. 2018