Pachyptila

Pachyptila is a genus of seabirds in the family Procellariidae and the order Procellariiformes. The members of this genus and the blue petrel form a sub-group called prions. They range throughout the southern hemisphere, often in the much cooler higher latitudes. Three species, the broad-billed prion, the Antarctic prion and the fairy prion, range into the subtropics.

Pachyptila

dfaulder · CC BY 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
prionPBDB
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 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 37 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 37 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 24 of 37 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 28 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Pachyptila on record. 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

37 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

4 formations

Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°EHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WBahía Inglesa — 27.16°S, 70.89°W

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The named rock units Pachyptila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

856 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Pachyptila, 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

18 references

Each of the 37 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. 6 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 content3

Picture of Pachyptila

Credit
dfaulder
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pachyptila salvini · l-jz:JZ:76

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Scientart
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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What may have been alongside itProcellariidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Illiger 1811