Pterodroma pycrofti
Pycroft's petrel is a species of seabird in the petrel and shearwater family Procellariidae.
Christopher Stephens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- Pycroft's petrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- PterodromaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
- Mass
- 159 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.
6 occurrences of Pterodroma pycrofti 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
6 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.
Pterodroma pycrofti and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Pterodroma pycrofti and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Pluvialis fulva6 sites
- Procellariidae6 sites
- Hemiphaga spadicea5 sites
- Sula dactylatra5 sites
- Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae4 sites
- Limosa lapponica4 sites
- Nestor productus4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis3 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Alopecoenas norfolkensis1 site
- Gallirallus1 site
- Porphyrio1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pterodroma pycrofti, 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 6 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 Pterodroma pycrofti
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Christopher Stephens
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pterodroma pycrofti 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 itPterodroma through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Falla 1933