Sula willetti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SulaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 129 ka.
5 occurrences of Sula willetti on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene80%
- Pleistocene20%
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.
Found in
5 formations
- Santa Margarita Formation1
- Modelo Formation1
- Lomita Marl Formation1
- Monterey Formation1
- "Topanga" Formation1
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The named rock units Sula willetti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sula willetti and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sula willetti and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Carcharodon hastalis4 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Carcharodon arnoldi2 sites
- Chauliodus eximius2 sites
- Dusisiren jordani2 sites
- Imagotaria downsi2 sites
- Moris lompocana2 sites
- Otariidae2 sites
- Pithanotaria starri2 sites
- Puffinus (Puffinus) diatomicus2 sites
- Aepycamelus1 site
- Allodesmus1 site
- Anatinae1 site
- Araeosteus rothi1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Argyropelecus bullockii1 site
- Atkinsonella strigilis1 site
- Balaenopteridae1 site
- Bathylagus angelensis1 site
- Bolbocara gyrinus1 site
- Bolinichthys1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharias lomitae1 site
- Carcharias virgatulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sula willetti, 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
5 references- A specimen-based approach to reconstructing the late Neogene seabird communities of California1
- Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean1
- A new Miocene locality record for Puffinus diatomicus and Sula willetti1
- Miocene sulids of southern California1
- Avian remains from the Miocene of Lompoc, California1
Each of the 5 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.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Sula willetti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sula willetti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sula willetti 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller 1925)