Nesofregetta fuliginosa
The Polynesian storm petrel is a species of seabird in the family Oceanitidae. It is the only species placed in the genus Nesofregetta. This species is markedly polymorphic, consisting of several subspecies. At one time the light-colored variety were even considered a species on their own. However, subspecies are not generally accepted today.
Стефанко1982 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- Polynesian storm-petrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- NesofregettaPBDB
- 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 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.
16 occurrences of Nesofregetta fuliginosa 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
16 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.
Nesofregetta fuliginosa and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Nesofregetta fuliginosa and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Gygis alba13 sites
- Fregata minor9 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda9 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis9 sites
- Acrocephalus taiti7 sites
- Anous7 sites
- Gallicolumba leonpascoi7 sites
- Pterodroma7 sites
- Ptilinopus insularis7 sites
- Zapornia atra7 sites
- Ducula harrisoni6 sites
- Puffinus bailloni6 sites
- Bountyphaps obsoleta5 sites
- Numenius tahitiensis5 sites
- Phaethon lepturus5 sites
- Prosobonia sauli5 sites
- Anous ceruleus4 sites
- Ardenna pacifica4 sites
- Pterodroma nigripennis4 sites
- Puffinus4 sites
- Vini stepheni4 sites
- Procellariidae3 sites
- Sula dactylatra3 sites
- Anas superciliosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Nesofregetta fuliginosa, 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- New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia7
- The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis7
- Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia2
Each of the 16 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 content2
Picture of Nesofregetta fuliginosa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Стефанко1982
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa · YPM:VZ:YPM ORN 118770
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 itNesofregetta through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1789)