Sula dactylatra

Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 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.

Also called

masked boobyPBDB

Sits inside

SulaPBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria

Life habit

ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

• 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 Sula dactylatra and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene. Draw the map

• Gygis alba9 sites
• Onychoprion fuscatus7 sites
• Fregata minor6 sites
• Pluvialis fulva6 sites
• Hemiphaga spadicea5 sites
• Procellariidae5 sites
• Pterodroma pycrofti5 sites
• Sula sula5 sites
• Acrocephalus taiti4 sites
• Anous4 sites
• Anous ceruleus4 sites
• Gallicolumba leonpascoi4 sites
• Limosa lapponica4 sites
• Nestor productus4 sites
• Numenius tahitiensis4 sites
• Oceanodroma castro4 sites
• Passeriformes4 sites
• Phaethon aethereus4 sites
• Phaethon rubricauda4 sites
• Prosobonia sauli4 sites
• Pterodroma4 sites
• Ptilinopus insularis4 sites
• Puffinus nativitatis4 sites
• Zapornia atra4 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Sula dactylatra, 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.

• Osteological differences between Sula and Morus, and a description of an extinct new species of Sula from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, Tasman Seavan Tets et al., 1988 · Notornis · journal article6
• Avifauna from the Emily Bay settlement site, Norfolk Island: a preliminary accountHoldaway and Anderson, 2001 · Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement · journal article5
• The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsisWragg, 1995 · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · journal article4
• Additional notes on subfossil bird remains from Ascension IslandOlson, 1977 · Ibis · journal article3
• Paleornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic OceanOlson, 1975 · Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology · journal article3
• Subfossil bird remains on Ascension IslandAshmole, 1963 · Ibis · journal article2
• Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of MicronesiaSteadman and Intoh, 1994 · Pacific Science · journal article1
• Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesian outliers in the Solomon IslandsSteadman et al., 1990 · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers · journal article1
• Ancient records of birds from the island of St. Croix with observations on extinct and living birds of Puerto RicoWetmore, 1937 · The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico · journal article1

Each of the 26 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 itSula through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesson 1831