Fulmarus

The fulmars are tube-nosed seabirds in the family Procellariidae. The family includes two extant species, and two extinct fossil species from the Miocene.

Fulmarus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProcellariidaePBDB
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 least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence549 ka–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences13.82 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Fulmarus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

33 occurrences

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

5 formations

Pisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.71°WTemblor — 35.47°N, 118.91°W

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The named rock units Fulmarus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fulmarus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Fulmarus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

559 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Fulmarus, 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

25 references

Each of the 33 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Fulmarus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
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.

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What may have been alongside itProcellariidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephens 1826