Thalassarche melanophris
The black-browed albatross, also known as the black-browed mollymawk, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae; it is the most widespread and common member of its family.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Black-browed albatrossPBDB
- Sits inside
- ThalassarchePBDB
- 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.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Thalassarche melanophris 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
1 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.
Thalassarche melanophris and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Thalassarche melanophris and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Arctocephalus1 site
- Ardenna grisea1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Cilus1 site
- Fulica armillata1 site
- Fulmarus glacialoides1 site
- Larus dominicanus1 site
- Myocastor coypus1 site
- Otaria byronia1 site
- Phalacrocorax1 site
- Rodentia indet.1 site
- Sebastes1 site
- Sicyases sanguineus1 site
- Thyrsites1 site
- Turdus falcklandii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Thalassarche melanophris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 Thalassarche melanophris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Thalassarche melanophris 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.
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 itThalassarche through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Temminck 1828