Phalacrocorax penicillatus

Teddy Llovet · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- Brandt's cormorantPBDB
- Sits inside
- PhalacrocoraxPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 1.93 kgWikidata
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
27 occurrences of Phalacrocorax penicillatus on record. 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
27 occurrences- Pleistocene41%
- Holocene59%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Phalacrocorax penicillatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
275 taxa- Larus17 sites
- Anas15 sites
- Anatinae15 sites
- Anser caerulescens15 sites
- Anserinae15 sites
- Numenius americanus15 sites
- Phalacrocorax auritus15 sites
- Tyto alba15 sites
- Corvus brachyrhynchos14 sites
- Corvus corax14 sites
- Melanitta14 sites
- Phalacrocorax pelagicus14 sites
- Podiceps nigricollis14 sites
- Uria14 sites
- Aechmophorus13 sites
- Aythya13 sites
- Branta canadensis13 sites
- Fulmarus glacialis13 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos12 sites
- Buteo12 sites
- Buteo jamaicensis12 sites
- Gavia immer12 sites
- Haliaeetus leucocephalus12 sites
- Limosa fedoa12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Phalacrocorax penicillatus, 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- Prehistoric human impacts on California birds: evidence from the Emeryville shellmoumd avifauna15
- Distribution and provenance of fossil avifauna on San Miguel Island4
- A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, California3
- Avian fossils from the marine Pleistocene of southern California2
- Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits1
- A catalogue of late Quaternary vertebrates from California: Part One, nonmarine lower vertebrate and avian taxa1
- Evidence of the survival to recent times of the extinct flightless duck Chendytes lawi Miller1
Each of the 27 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 Phalacrocorax penicillatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Teddy Llovet
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Phalacrocorax penicillatus · TxVP:M:1180
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 itPhalacrocorax through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brandt 1837)