Puffinus assimilis

John Gerrard Keulemans · Public Domain · 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.

Also called

little shearwaterPBDB

Sits inside

PuffinusPBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria

Life habit

ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda

Environment

marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes

• 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.

Where Puffinus assimilis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene. Draw the map

• Pelecanoides urinatrix5 sites
• Ardenna grisea4 sites
• Pachyptila desolata3 sites
• Pachyptila turtur3 sites
• Pterodroma lessonii3 sites
• Anas chlorotis2 sites
• Anas superciliosa2 sites
• Ardenna bulleri2 sites
• Ardenna carneipes2 sites
• Chlidonias albostriatus2 sites
• Cyanoramphus2 sites
• Diomedea2 sites
• Eudyptes pachyrhynchus2 sites
• Fulmarus glacialoides2 sites
• Halobaena caerulea2 sites
• Macronectes2 sites
• Nestor meridionalis2 sites
• Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
• Pachyptila2 sites
• Pelagodroma marina2 sites
• Procellaria cinerea2 sites
• Pterodroma2 sites
• Stercorarius antarcticus2 sites
• Tadorna variegata2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Puffinus assimilis, 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.

• Holocene fossil bird remains from subantarctic Macquarie IslandTennyson and Scofield, 2013 · Proceeding of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution · journal article3
• The fossil avifauna of Amsterdam Island, Indian OceanWorthy and Jouventin, 1999 · Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C, 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology · journal article1
• A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New ZealandWorthy, 1998 · Records of the Canterbury Museum · journal article1
• Fossils indicate Pelecanoides georgicus had large colonies at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New ZealandWorthy, 1998 · Notornis · journal article1
• Subfossil petrel bones from the Chatham IslandsBourne, 1967 · The Ibis · journal article1

Each of the 7 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.

What may have been alongside itPuffinus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gould 1838