Phaethon aethereus
Uncredited · 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- Also called
- red-billed tropicbirdPBDB
- Sits inside
- PhaethonPBDB
- 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.
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.
5 occurrences of Phaethon aethereus 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
5 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.
Phaethon aethereus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Phaethon aethereus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Sula dactylatra4 sites
- Onychoprion fuscatus3 sites
- Fregata aquila2 sites
- Gygis alba2 sites
- Oceanodroma castro2 sites
- Pelagodroma marina2 sites
- Sula sula2 sites
- Aphanocrex podarces1 site
- Charadrius sanctaehelenae1 site
- Fregata ariel1 site
- Fregata minor1 site
- Nannococcyx psix1 site
- Porzana astrictocarpus1 site
- Pterodroma rupinarum1 site
- Puffinus lherminieri1 site
- Rattus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Phaethon aethereus, 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
3 references- Paleornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean2
- Subfossil bird remains on Ascension Island2
- Additional notes on subfossil bird remains from Ascension Island1
Each of the 5 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 Phaethon aethereus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Phaethon aethereus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhaethon through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758