Papasula abbotti abbotti · Epoch Explorer

Bill Bacon from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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

Sits inside: SulidaePBDB
Diet: carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit: ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility: actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment: terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At most 12 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

1 occurrence of Papasula 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

1 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.

Papasula and its relatives

Holocene

Where Papasula and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Papasula, 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

1 reference

A new subspecies and new records of Papasula abbotti (Aves: Sulidae) from the archaeological sites in the tropical PacificSteadman et al., 1988 · Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington · journal article1

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Papasula

Source: Wikidata/Commons
Credit: Bill Bacon from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Commercial use: the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside it Sulidae through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olson and Warheit 1988