Diomedea epomophora · Epoch Explorer

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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: royal albatrossPBDB
Sits inside: DiomedeaPBDB
Diet: carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit: ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility: actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment: marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
Mass: 7.7 kgWikidata

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.

5 occurrences of Diomedea epomophora 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

5 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.

Diomedea epomophora and its relatives

Holocene

Where Diomedea epomophora and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Diomedea epomophora, 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

3 references

The history of the Chatham Islands' bird fauna of the last 7000 years - a chronicle of change and extinctionMillener, 1999 · Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C, 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology · journal article3
The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsisWragg, 1995 · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · journal article1
Subfossil petrel bones from the Chatham IslandsBourne, 1967 · The Ibis · journal article1

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 content1

Picture of Diomedea epomophora

Source: Wikidata/Commons
Credit: nobody named on the record
Licence: not stated by the source
Commercial use: cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Diomedea epomophora 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 it Diomedea through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesson 1825