Procellaria cinerea
The grey petrel, also called the gray petrel, brown petrel, pediunker or grey shearwater, is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae, or petrel family. It is pelagic and occurs in the open seas of the Southern Hemisphere, mainly between 32°S and 58°S.
JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- gray petrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- ProcellariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
- Mass
- 1.13 kgWikidata
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.
2 occurrences of Procellaria cinerea 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
2 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.
Procellaria cinerea and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Procellaria cinerea and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Ardenna grisea2 sites
- Pachyptila2 sites
- Pachyptila turtur2 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix2 sites
- Pterodroma2 sites
- Puffinus assimilis2 sites
- Anas marecula1 site
- Ardenna bulleri1 site
- Ardenna carneipes1 site
- Diomedea1 site
- Diomedea amsterdamensis1 site
- Diomedea epomophora1 site
- Eudyptes chrysocome1 site
- Fregetta grallaria1 site
- Fulmarus glacialoides1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Hydrobatidae1 site
- Macronectes halli1 site
- Oceanites1 site
- Pachyptila desolata1 site
- Pachyptila salvini macgillivrayi1 site
- Pachyptila vittata1 site
- Pelagodroma marina1 site
- Phoebetria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Procellaria cinerea, 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
2 references- The fossil avifauna of Amsterdam Island, Indian Ocean1
- Subfossil petrel bones from the Chatham Islands1
Each of the 2 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 Procellaria cinerea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Procellaria cinerea 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Grey petrel”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProcellaria through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gmelin 1789