Fregata minor
The great frigatebird is a large seabird in the frigatebird family. There are major nesting populations in the tropical Pacific Ocean, such as Hawaii and the Galápagos Islands; in the Indian Ocean, colonies can be found in the Seychelles and Mauritius, and there is a tiny population in the South Atlantic, mostly on and around St. Helena and Boatswain Bird Island.
Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- Great frigatebirdPBDB
- Sits inside
- FregataPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 74 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.
26 occurrences of Fregata minor 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
26 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.
Fregata minor and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Fregata minor and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Gygis alba16 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda12 sites
- Pterodroma12 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis12 sites
- Anous stolidus11 sites
- Gallus gallus10 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis10 sites
- Sula sula10 sites
- Anous9 sites
- Fregata ariel9 sites
- Gallicolumba leonpascoi9 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa9 sites
- Zapornia atra9 sites
- Phaethon lepturus8 sites
- Ptilinopus insularis8 sites
- Acrocephalus taiti7 sites
- Anous ceruleus7 sites
- Anous minutus7 sites
- Onychoprion fuscatus7 sites
- Ducula harrisoni6 sites
- Puffinus6 sites
- Sterninae6 sites
- Sula dactylatra6 sites
- Ardenna pacifica5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Fregata minor, 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
8 references- The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis9
- Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands6
- New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia3
- Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia3
- Paleornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean2
- Extinction and biogeography of birds on Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia1
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands1
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups1
Each of the 26 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 Fregata minor
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fregata minor 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 itFregata through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1789)