Fratercula corniculata
The horned puffin is an auk found in the North Pacific Ocean, including the coasts of Alaska, Siberia and British Columbia. It is a pelagic seabird that feeds primarily by diving for fish. It nests in colonies, often with other auks.
Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service from Anchorage, United States · Public Domain · 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
- horned puffinPBDB
- Sits inside
- FraterculaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
- Mass
- 637.16 gWikidata
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.
2 occurrences of Fratercula corniculata 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
2 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.
Fratercula corniculata and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Fratercula corniculata and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Aethia cristatella2 sites
- Aethia psittacula2 sites
- Aethia pusilla2 sites
- Aethia pygmaea2 sites
- Branta canadensis2 sites
- Cerorhinca monocerata2 sites
- Fratercula cirrhata2 sites
- Hydrobates leucorhous2 sites
- Larus hyperboreus2 sites
- Phalacrocorax2 sites
- Phoebastria albatrus2 sites
- Ptychoramphus aleuticus2 sites
- Synthliboramphus antiquus2 sites
- Brachyramphus1 site
- Cepphus columba1 site
- Eumetopias jubatus1 site
- Fulmarus glacialis1 site
- Larus1 site
- Larus glaucescens1 site
- Melospiza melodia1 site
- Rissa brevirostris1 site
- Uria1 site
- Uria aalge1 site
- Uria lomvia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fratercula corniculata, 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 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Fratercula corniculata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service from Anchorage, United States
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itFratercula through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Naumann 1821)