Garrodia nereis
The grey-backed storm petrel is a species of seabird in the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae. It is monotypic within the genus Garrodia. It is found in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Southern Territories, New Zealand, Saint Helena, South Africa, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Its natural habitat is open seas. It is highly attracted to bright lights, especially in conditions of low visibility.
JJ Harrison · 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
- gray-backed storm-petrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- GarrodiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
- Mass
- 24 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.
4 occurrences of Garrodia nereis 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
4 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.
Garrodia nereis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Garrodia nereis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Coenocorypha aucklandica2 sites
- Cyanoramphus2 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae2 sites
- Pachyptila turtur2 sites
- Petroica macrocephala2 sites
- Turnagra capensis2 sites
- Acanthisitta chloris1 site
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae1 site
- Alauda arvensis1 site
- Anas chlorotis1 site
- Anthornis melanocephala1 site
- Anthornis melanura1 site
- Apteryx1 site
- Ardenna bulleri1 site
- Callaeas cinereus1 site
- Carduelis carduelis1 site
- Chlidonias albostriatus1 site
- Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae1 site
- Coenocorypha chathamica1 site
- Coenocorypha pusilla1 site
- Columba livia1 site
- Coturnix novaezelandiae1 site
- Cyanoramphus forbesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Garrodia nereis, 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- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand2
- Fossils indicate Pelecanoides georgicus had large colonies at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand1
- Bird extinctions and fossil bones from Mangere Island, Chatham Islands1
Each of the 4 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 Garrodia nereis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- JJ Harrison
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Garrodia nereis 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.
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 itGarrodia through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1841)