Daption capense
The pintado petrel, also called the Cape petrel, or Cape fulmar, is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae. It is the only member of the genus Daption, and is allied to the fulmarine petrels and the giant petrels. It is an abundant seabird, with an estimated population of around 2 million.
christoph_moning · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- Cape petrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- DaptionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
- Mass
- 424 gWikidata
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 Daption capense 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.
Daption capense and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Daption capense and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Anas chlorotis1 site
- Ardenna bulleri1 site
- Chlidonias albostriatus1 site
- Coenocorypha aucklandica1 site
- Cyanoramphus1 site
- Diomedea1 site
- Eudyptes pachyrhynchus1 site
- Fulmarus glacialoides1 site
- Garrodia nereis1 site
- Macronectes1 site
- Nestor meridionalis1 site
- Ninox novaeseelandiae1 site
- Petroica macrocephala1 site
- Pterodroma lessonii1 site
- Puffinus assimilis1 site
- Tadorna variegata1 site
- Thalassarche bulleri1 site
- Thalassarche cauta1 site
- Turnagra capensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Daption capense, 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 reference- Fossils indicate Pelecanoides georgicus had large colonies at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Daption capense
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- christoph_moning
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Daption capense · NHMUK:ZOO:S/1952.1.63
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 itDaption through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)