Phalacrocorax neglectus
The bank cormorant, also known as Wahlberg's cormorant, is a medium-sized cormorant that is endemic to Namibia and the western seaboard of South Africa, living in and around coastal waters; it is rarely recorded more than 15 km offshore.
Frans Vandevalle · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- bank cormorantPBDB
- Sits inside
- PhalacrocoraxPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 47 gWikidata
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.
2 occurrences of Phalacrocorax neglectus 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
2 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.
Phalacrocorax neglectus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Phalacrocorax neglectus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Larus dominicanus2 sites
- Morus capensis2 sites
- Phalacrocorax capensis2 sites
- Phalacrocorax carbo2 sites
- Spheniscus demersus2 sites
- Burhinus capensis1 site
- Chroicocephalus hartlaubii1 site
- Diomedeidae1 site
- Microcarbo coronatus1 site
- Passeriformes1 site
- Pternistis capensis1 site
- Thalasseus sandvicensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phalacrocorax neglectus, 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 2 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 Phalacrocorax neglectus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Frans Vandevalle
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phalacrocorax neglectus 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
- 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 itPhalacrocorax through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wahlberg 1855)