Diomedea milleri
Diomedea milleri is an extinct species of albatross in the genus Diomedea that lived during the Middle Miocene.
No picture of Diomedea milleri 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 Diomedea milleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiomedeaPBDB
- 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 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Diomedea milleri 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Diomedea milleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diomedea milleri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diomedea milleri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Cosmopolitodus planus2 sites
- Galeocerdo aduncus2 sites
- Hemipristis serra2 sites
- Isurus2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Negaprion2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Puffinus2 sites
- Puffinus mitchelli2 sites
- Puffinus priscus2 sites
- Squatina lerichei2 sites
- Sulidae2 sites
- Aepycamelus1 site
- Allodesmus1 site
- Allodesmus kernensis1 site
- Allodesmus sinanoensis1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Anatinae1 site
- Archaeolagus1 site
- Bouromeryx americanus1 site
- Branta1 site
- Carcharias clavatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Diomedea milleri, 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- A specimen-based approach to reconstructing the late Neogene seabird communities of California1
- Middle Miocene marine birds from the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County, California1
- Additional avian records form the Miocene of Sharktooth Hill, California1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Diomedea milleri 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 Diomedea milleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diomedea milleri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDiomedea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howard 1966