Pseudobulweria rostrata
Uncredited · 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
- Tahiti petrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- PseudobulweriaPBDB
- 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.
11 occurrences of Pseudobulweria rostrata 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
11 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 rostrata and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Pseudobulweria rostrata and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Gallus gallus8 sites
- Anous stolidus7 sites
- Sula sula6 sites
- Fregata minor5 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis5 sites
- Phaethon lepturus5 sites
- Procellariidae5 sites
- Sula leucogaster5 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis5 sites
- Anous minutus4 sites
- Ardenna pacifica4 sites
- Columbidae4 sites
- Egretta sacra4 sites
- Fregata ariel4 sites
- Gygis alba4 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis4 sites
- Pterodroma4 sites
- Sterninae4 sites
- Columba vitiensis3 sites
- Ducula pacifica3 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus3 sites
- Porphyrio porphyrio3 sites
- Urodynamis taitensis3 sites
- Accipiter efficax2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pseudobulweria rostrata, 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
9 references- 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
- 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 11 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 rostrata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPseudobulweria through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Peale 1848)