Phalacrocorax wetmorei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhalacrocoraxPBDB
- 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 least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
4 occurrences of Phalacrocorax wetmorei on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Peace River Formation · Hawthorn Group2
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Alachua Formation1
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The named rock units Phalacrocorax wetmorei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phalacrocorax wetmorei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Phalacrocorax wetmorei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
482 taxa- Gavia concinna3 sites
- Larus3 sites
- Antilocapridae2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Felidae2 sites
- Haematopus palliatus2 sites
- Morus peninsularis2 sites
- Phoebastria anglica2 sites
- Phoenicopterus floridanus2 sites
- Podiceps auritus2 sites
- <Brotulid>1 site
- Acanthocybium solandri1 site
- Accipitridae1 site
- Acipenser oxyrhynchus1 site
- Actinocythereis1 site
- Actinocythereis captionis1 site
- Acuticythereis1 site
- Aethiinae1 site
- Aetobatus1 site
- Agonidae1 site
- Alca1 site
- Alca ausonia1 site
- Alca carolinensis1 site
- Alca grandis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Phalacrocorax wetmorei, 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
3 references- The avifauna of the Bone Valley Formation2
- Miocene and Pliocene birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina1
- Fossil birds from the Alachua Clay of Florida1
Each of the 4 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 wetmorei
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Phalacrocorax wetmorei 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 itPhalacrocorax through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brodkorb 1955