Puffinus
Searched as Puffinus assimilis myrtae. The Paleobiology Database treats Puffinus as the accepted name.
Puffinus is a genus of seabirds in the order Procellariiformes that contains about 20 small to medium-sized shearwaters. Two other shearwater genera are named: Calonectris, which comprises three or four large shearwaters, and Ardenna with another seven species.
JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 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- Also called
- shearwaterPBDB
- 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.
7 occurrences of Puffinus 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
7 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.
Puffinus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Puffinus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
2,593 taxa- Phaethon lepturus27 sites
- Ardenna grisea24 sites
- Gygis alba24 sites
- Ardenna pacifica19 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda18 sites
- Pterodroma18 sites
- Fregata minor17 sites
- Gallus gallus16 sites
- Larus16 sites
- Uria aalge15 sites
- Phoebastria albatrus14 sites
- Procellariidae14 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa13 sites
- Sula sula13 sites
- Anous stolidus12 sites
- Cyanoramphus12 sites
- Fulmarus glacialis12 sites
- Onychoprion fuscatus12 sites
- Pelagodroma marina12 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix12 sites
- Ptychoramphus aleuticus12 sites
- Rattus12 sites
- Chendytes lawi11 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 203 sites for Puffinus, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Puffinus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Puffinus”
- 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. Brisson 1760