Pterodroma heraldica
The Herald petrel is a species of seabird and a member of the gadfly petrels. Its range includes the south Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean.
claudioveliz · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- herald 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
- 280 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.
8 occurrences of Pterodroma heraldica 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
8 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 heraldica and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Pterodroma heraldica and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Procellariidae7 sites
- Ardenna pacifica5 sites
- Phaethon lepturus5 sites
- Pseudobulweria5 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis5 sites
- Gygis alba4 sites
- Puffinus bailloni4 sites
- Bountyphaps obsoleta3 sites
- Gallus gallus3 sites
- Columbidae2 sites
- Ducula tihonireasini2 sites
- Fregata minor2 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa2 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda2 sites
- Pterodroma leucoptera2 sites
- Ptilinopus2 sites
- Acrocephalus caffer1 site
- Alopecoenas erythropterus1 site
- Anous minutus1 site
- Anous stolidus1 site
- Aplonis diluvialis1 site
- Butorides striata1 site
- Ducula aurorae1 site
- Ducula galeata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pterodroma heraldica, 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- New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia7
- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
Each of the 8 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 heraldica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- claudioveliz
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. (Salvin 1888)