Phalacrocorax pelagicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- pelagic 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
- 2.07 kgWikidata
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
21 occurrences of Phalacrocorax pelagicus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
21 occurrences- Pleistocene52%
- Holocene48%
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 pelagicus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Phalacrocorax pelagicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
245 taxa- Phalacrocorax penicillatus14 sites
- Anser caerulescens11 sites
- Tyto alba11 sites
- Ardenna grisea10 sites
- Phoebastria albatrus10 sites
- Aechmophorus9 sites
- Branta canadensis9 sites
- Buteo jamaicensis9 sites
- Corvus corax9 sites
- Larus9 sites
- Podiceps nigricollis9 sites
- Uria aalge9 sites
- Anatinae8 sites
- Anserinae8 sites
- Fulmarus glacialis8 sites
- Melanitta fusca8 sites
- Phalacrocorax auritus8 sites
- Ptychoramphus aleuticus8 sites
- Anas7 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos7 sites
- Corvus brachyrhynchos7 sites
- Gavia immer7 sites
- Haliaeetus leucocephalus7 sites
- Melanitta7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Phalacrocorax pelagicus, 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
9 references- Prehistoric human impacts on California birds: evidence from the Emeryville shellmoumd avifauna8
- Pleistocene seabirds from Shiriya, northeast Japan: systematics and oceanographic context3
- Distribution and provenance of fossil avifauna on San Miguel Island3
- A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, California2
- Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits1
- Dynamics of sea mammal and bird populations of the Bearing Sea region over the last several millennia1
- A catalogue of late Quaternary vertebrates from California: Part One, nonmarine lower vertebrate and avian taxa1
- Quaternary vertebrates from Shiriya area, Shimokita Pininsula, northeastern Japan1
- Evidence of the survival to recent times of the extinct flightless duck Chendytes lawi Miller1
Each of the 21 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. 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 content1
Picture of Phalacrocorax pelagicus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phalacrocorax pelagicus 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.
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What may have been alongside itPhalacrocorax through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pallas 1811