Morus capensis
The Cape gannet is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae.
Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- Cape gannetPBDB
- Sits inside
- MorusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 2.64 kgWikidata
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.
3 occurrences of Morus capensis 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
3 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.
Morus capensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Morus capensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Larus dominicanus3 sites
- Phalacrocorax capensis3 sites
- Phalacrocorax carbo3 sites
- Spheniscus demersus3 sites
- Microcarbo coronatus2 sites
- Phalacrocorax neglectus2 sites
- Bubo africanus1 site
- Burhinus capensis1 site
- Chroicocephalus hartlaubii1 site
- Diomedeidae1 site
- Haematopus moquini1 site
- Passeriformes1 site
- Pternistis capensis1 site
- Sterna hirundo1 site
- Thalasseus bergii1 site
- Thalasseus sandvicensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Morus capensis, 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 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 content1
Picture of Morus capensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Bernard DUPONT
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Morus capensis 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cape gannet”
- 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 itMorus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lichtenstein 1823)