Pterodroma hasitata
The black-capped petrel, also known as the diablotín, is a small seabird native to the West Indies in the genus Pterodroma. It is a long-winged petrel with a grey-brown back and wings, with a white nape and rump. Underparts are mainly white apart from a black cap and some dark underwing markings. It picks food items such as squid from the ocean surface.
Patrick Coin ( Patrick Coin ) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
- black-capped petrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- PterodromaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
- Mass
- 455 gWikidata
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.
3 occurrences of Pterodroma hasitata 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
3 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.
Pterodroma hasitata and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Pterodroma hasitata and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Patagioenas leucocephala2 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa2 sites
- Zenaida aurita2 sites
- Accipiter striatus1 site
- Amazona ventralis1 site
- Buteo platypterus1 site
- Chlorostilbon swainsonii1 site
- Coccyzus longirostris1 site
- Columbina passerina1 site
- Corvus nasicus1 site
- Cypseloides niger1 site
- Eudocimus albus1 site
- Geotrygon1 site
- Ionornis martinica1 site
- Loxia megaplaga1 site
- Melanerpes striatus1 site
- Mellisuga minima1 site
- Mimus gundlachii1 site
- Onychoprion fuscatus1 site
- Pandion haliaetus1 site
- Patagioenas1 site
- Patagioenas inornata1 site
- Priotelus roseigaster1 site
- Psittacus leucocephalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pterodroma hasitata, 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
3 references- A late-Holocene bird community from Hispaniola: Refining the chronology of vertebrate extinction in the West Indies1
- Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas1
- A record for the black-capped petrel, Pterodroma hasitata, in Martinique1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Pterodroma hasitata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Patrick Coin ( Patrick Coin )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pterodroma hasitata 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 itPterodroma through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kuhl 1820)