Procellariiformes

Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families; the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English, Procellariiformes are often referred to collectively as the petrels, a term that has been applied to all members of the order, or more commonly all the families except the albatrosses. They are almost exclusively pelagic, and have a cosmopolitan distribution across the world's oceans, with the highest diversity being the seas around New Zealand.

Procellariiformes

JJ Harrison ( https://tiny.jjharrison.com.au/t/ZDNfwv2t2W8dvaar ) · 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
Sits inside
ProcellariimorphaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 959 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 959 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 15 of 959 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 959 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 83 of 959 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 84 of 959 occurrencesPleistocene — about 198 of 959 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 22 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 21 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 25 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 73 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 762 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

959 occurrences of Procellariiformes 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

959 occurrences

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

56 formations

San Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.75°N, 117.17°WSan Diego — 32.71°N, 117.12°WSan Diego — 32.57°N, 117.03°WSan Diego — 32.76°N, 117.13°WSan Diego — 32.74°N, 117.05°WSan Diego — 32.80°N, 117.26°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°ETemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WTemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°EMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.70°WMonterey — 34.95°N, 120.14°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.67°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°W"Topanga" — 33.66°N, 117.63°WBahía Inglesa — 27.08°S, 70.84°WBahía Inglesa — 27.17°S, 70.87°WAlmejas — 28.11°N, 115.18°WPisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 38.18°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WSan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WTangahoe — 39.58°S, 174.28°EPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 158.10°WAstoria — 46.28°N, 123.78°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°E

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The named rock units Procellariiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 741 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

3,399 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 459 sites for Procellariiformes, and this reads 240 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

207 references

Each of the 959 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. 195 further references are not listed. 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 Procellariiformes

Credit
JJ Harrison ( https://tiny.jjharrison.com.au/t/ZDNfwv2t2W8dvaar )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Procellariiformes 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fürbringer 1888)