Puffinus bailloni
The tropical shearwater is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly considered conspecific with Audubon's shearwater.
Kinlarak · 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
- tropical shearwaterPBDB
- Sits inside
- PuffinusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
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.
14 occurrences of Puffinus bailloni 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
14 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.
Puffinus bailloni and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Puffinus bailloni and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Phaethon lepturus7 sites
- Ardenna pacifica6 sites
- Nesofregetta fuliginosa6 sites
- Gygis alba5 sites
- Pseudobulweria5 sites
- Procellariidae4 sites
- Pterodroma heraldica4 sites
- Puffinus nativitatis4 sites
- Phaethon rubricauda3 sites
- Pterodroma leucoptera3 sites
- Bountyphaps obsoleta2 sites
- Ducula tihonireasini2 sites
- Fregata minor2 sites
- Gallus gallus2 sites
- Laridae2 sites
- Pterodroma2 sites
- Ptilinopus2 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus1 site
- Alopecoenas1 site
- Anas superciliosa1 site
- Ardea alba modesta1 site
- Centropus1 site
- Chalcophaps indica1 site
- Columba vitiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Puffinus bailloni, 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
2 references- New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia13
- Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, including a new genus and species of megapode1
Each of the 14 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 Puffinus bailloni
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kinlarak
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Puffinus bailloni 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 itPuffinus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1857