Pseudobulweria
Pseudobulweria is a genus of seabirds in the family Procellariidae. They have long been retained with the gadfly petrel genus Pterodroma despite morphological differences. Mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b sequence analysis has confirmed the split out of Pterodroma and places the genus closer to shearwaters. They thus represent either a plesiomorphic lineage still sharing some traits of the ancestral Procellariidae with the gadfly petrels, or convergent evolution of a shearwater to the ecological niche of gadfly petrels.
Aviceda at English Wikipedia ( Original text: Tom ( talk ) ) · CC BY 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
- ProcellariidaePBDB
- 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.
25 occurrences of Pseudobulweria 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
25 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.
Pseudobulweria and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Pseudobulweria and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
154 taxa- Gallus gallus13 sites
- Procellariidae11 sites
- Ardenna pacifica9 sites
- Gygis alba9 sites
- Pterodroma9 sites
- Anous stolidus8 sites
- Phaethon lepturus8 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis7 sites
- Fregata minor6 sites
- Pterodroma heraldica6 sites
- Puffinus bailloni6 sites
- Sula sula6 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis5 sites
- Sula leucogaster5 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis5 sites
- Anous minutus4 sites
- Columbidae4 sites
- Egretta sacra4 sites
- Fregata ariel4 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis4 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda4 sites
- Sterninae4 sites
- Columba vitiensis3 sites
- Ducula pacifica3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Pseudobulweria, 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
12 references- New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia10
- Avifaunal assemblages from Nenega-iti and Onemea3
- Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands3
- Prehistoric avifaunas from the Kingdom of Tonga1
- Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, including a new genus and species of megapode1
- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves1
- The fossil avifauna of Amsterdam Island, Indian Ocean1
- Bird bones from the To’aga site: prehistoric loss of seabirds and megapodes1
- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands1
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia1
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups1
Each of the 25 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 Pseudobulweria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Aviceda at English Wikipedia ( Original text: Tom ( talk ) )
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudobulweria 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProcellariidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mathews 1936